[Software testing] Boys vs girls, who is more suitable? No bugs you can't find...

Contents: Guide

foreword

There have always been many people who are new to the testing workplace or want to change careers such as software testing, and they will have a lot of questions?
For example,
what technologies do you need to learn in software testing?
Software testers need code?
Are software test engineers tired?
Need to work overtime often?
…
The software testing industry is booming, and there is a shortage of talents gradually, which has caused the wages of industry personnel to rise again and again.

Therefore, more and more people are also beginning to realize the "high salary" attribute of the software testing industry, and turn around and devote themselves to related work.

In everyone's inherent impression, boys are more suitable for technical jobs than girls.
　　
So is this really the case?

We will now help the majority of female friends to analyze the advantages and disadvantages of the test for girls.

Advantages
1. Girls' innate personality advantages
After job demand analysis, the profession of software testing has special requirements for the characteristics of practitioners.

People who do software testing need to have characteristics such as patience, carefulness, sensitivity, reverse, questioning, doubt, proof, resilience, and quietness; among the above characteristics, most of the requirements are very consistent with women's physiological personality and temperament:

1) Girls are naturally more careful, patient, responsible, sensitive and quieter than boys.

Students who have done testing know that designing software test cases is a relatively meticulous task, and executing tests is a very cumbersome and highly repetitive task.

Girls' natural personality advantages allow them to better control the details of software products, can repeat but still do things seriously, cover more comprehensive test points, find more bugs, and avoid frizz. , Missed tests and online problems caused by impatience.

2) In addition, it is rumored that girls are more suspicious than boys by nature

Maintaining a skeptical spirit is an essential quality for software testing, so maintain a skeptical attitude towards any product, firmly believe that there will be no "bug-free product", and also believe that "there is no bug that you can't find"!

This is also very critical and important for testing work!

According to the analysis of the above two points, women seem to have a unique advantage in software testing.

According to incomplete statistics, in the same project, in the same time cost, the number of bugs after testing by girls is generally about 10% more than that of boys.

2. Girls have good communication skills.
In the teams of IT/Internet companies, girls themselves are "scarce creatures" at the panda level. I believe that many students who are currently doing software development can easily find that our surroundings are basically all men, and the working atmosphere is extremely "severe".

If a group of girls are recruited as software testers, a balanced gender ratio will relieve a lot of work pressure. "Men and women match, work is not tiring", this is also the characteristic of the soft testing position.

So in a software company, if a new girl arrives, it will basically attract crowds; the attitude and friendliness of the male compatriots towards this girl is self-evident;

Moreover, as mentioned above, there are generally more boys in development, and if there are girls in the test, the communication with the development will be more harmonious and smooth.

You can imagine that when a technical nerd develops a game, and sees a bug raised by a girl, or a girl comes to ask a question, the natural gentleman's demeanor can't be hidden, so the communication efficiency between departments will naturally improve a lot, and conflicts and conflicts will also be eliminated. It will be much reduced, and the cooperation between departments will be harmonious;

Furthermore, girls are born with stronger communication skills than boys, and communication in testing positions is an essential link, in addition to communication with development, there is also communication with products, operation and maintenance, etc. Once the communication cost is reduced at work, work efficiency will naturally increase.

Therefore, from a physiological point of view, girls have a significant advantage in taking the test.

3. The market demand of the testing industry is more suitable for girls (male compatriots, the dao is on the neck, that’s all I can say).
Compared with software development engineers, the software testing position has much less work intensity and naturally much less overtime. .

Often when software testers work overtime, software developers have to accompany them to modify bugs, but when developers work overtime, testers don't have to accompany them, so they can live their own lives in their spare time.

Moreover, the software testing and testing industry, unlike the male-dominated development industry, has more obvious gender discrimination; relatively speaking, the testing workplace environment is more friendly to girls, and it will also give girls more opportunities for fair salary increases and promotions.

Therefore, software testing can be said to be the most suitable direction for girls in the IT industry.
Of course, not all girls have advantages in software testing, and they also have their own disadvantages.

disadvantage

1. Girls are relatively weak in technology and hands-on ability (don’t bully me online)
Most girls’ hands-on ability is a little weaker, and it is inevitable to use various tools, frameworks and even codes in the testing work.

These are difficult for many girls to use, which is one of the reasons why many girls are hesitant to enter the testing industry, worrying that there are too many technologies and tools that are too difficult to control.

Of course, this is not universal. In the testing industry, there are many girls who are masters of technology, and they are not inferior to boys in terms of tools and codes; there are also many female managers, whose aura and ability can hold the audience.

Therefore, weak technical ability and hands-on ability are not the fatal injuries for girls to engage in testing. As long as they are serious, hard-working, and love testing work, they can become the masters of the testing industry.

2. Girls are less able to withstand overtime than boys.
In terms of overtime tolerance, girls are slightly weaker than boys

Although as mentioned above, the overtime intensity of testing is not as great as that of development, but in the Internet industry, it is impossible not to work overtime at all.

In terms of physical fitness, girls cannot bear the same overtime pressure as boys; in addition, especially when girls start a family and have a baby, they have to spend extra time taking care of the family and family. The working time and the working pressure that can be tolerated are even more limited.

This is also an important reason why many companies prefer to consider women under the age of 26 who are unmarried and have no children when recruiting.

Of course, this is not a phenomenon unique to the testing industry, but common to all industries. Therefore, no matter which industry you are in, the disadvantage of girls is inevitable.

According to incomplete statistics, the ratio of men to women in the software industry is close to 1:1. Many companies have adopted the test standards, as long as the technology is ok, men and women are not limited.

Therefore, for the software testing industry, the gender difference between boys and girls will not have a great impact on the workplace: boys have their own unique impression of social attributes, but girls also have advantages that boys cannot match.
　　
Therefore, as long as you love the testing industry, don't set limits for yourself, let alone give up lightly, and you will gain a leap in the testing workplace if you persist in learning, regardless of gender! above.

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