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1. The test industry is changing
In promoting the new Internet trends change and new requirements, testing industry are unconsciously undergoing great changes, from the silly early years of development, we cross the river by feeling the stones, mostly to the establishment of software testing professional colleges and universities, and then in vogue in recent years, a variety of test training. If the earlier software testing industry is still a vent, with the crazy influx of the software testing industry personnel constantly change jobs and university graduates, the current software testing industry, "gap" has been basically saturated, job demand the most basic functional testing has been increasingly more less. Barriers to entry test, but also with professional computer expertise (including but not limited to programming skills) from true zero-based, to the current requirements, software testing in the degree of attention of enterprises, especially the Internet industry, but also from non-essential, to indispensable.
2. Industry distribution personnel polarized state of affairs presents
Testing industry continues to develop, the industry has shown a serious polarization state of affairs, one side is a veteran big test cattle , belonging to the whole stack compound talents, but this type of industry in the proportion of people more scarce. First, because of trade reasons, strong codes ability, architecture experienced personnel are generally in the development department; the second is the high demand, senior test development engineer should not only proficient test-related skills, but also will be front-end design, server-side development and so on, almost a full-stack engineer; and program staff to do a little more proficient general or several points, from front to back on the whole can be less and less. The other side is white test , even some in the test industry has fought for years, but there are still a lot of testers are still stuck in this stage will only business function tests. And for this type of test employed, in addition to the exception of some of the status quo, most people are in fact still want to learn, I want to progress just do not know the direction of learning, or learning the right way.
3. Companies need more high-end integrated talent
But no matter what kind of belonging, for businesses, want to quickly develop their own business, there must be a strong test team to ensure the quality, through a series of quality assurance tools such as CI, CD and other means to promote the introduction of rapid iteration and project delivery. This requires that the relevant test engineers to design from many aspects to consider and solve problems, not only to consider the implementation costs of the project, but also to consider testing participation, development, product users, and even personnel, while the prospects and development of the company and direction meet, and can well serve. The ability to provide this type of testing personnel in the company are more popular, and each year find work season so few people will enter the market circulation of talent, and soon find a job, this is the direction for each of the testers, only with the corresponding value of strength, to be eligible to business requirements you expect in return .
4. recruiting companies and job seekers are always difficult to match supply and demand
Many students complain about, why companies recruit people increasingly high demand, in addition to academic qualifications (degree or above) is also required (within 35), and project experience of age, very, very difficult. In fact, companies are very distressed: recruit a few suitable candidates too hard, this is the so-called "supply and demand" the imbalance. Test a large number of practitioners find work, a lot of companies can not find a suitable candidate.
Caused by a mismatch between supply and demand imbalance in the core of the problem in the final analysis focused on capacity requirements do not match .
Then the testers core skills or core competencies of testers in the end what? Testers should think about this question, business employers should also be thinking about what kind of testers need? I believe more or less have this feeling when you interview a job, in the recruitment business, requiring a variety of framework, various programming languages, a variety of tools. We learned how to use it in testing techniques, test tools, and finally focus on core competencies in the end what?
5. What is your core competence is?
Mentioned in the software testing industry, what your core competence is? This is a very interesting topic, as we often say "value issues team," you often see the testers themselves wondering where our values are and what is? But we rarely see software developer or architect, or operation and maintenance team to ask such a question, to find their own value. This is because the testers this value itself is less certain, then the value itself is uncertain, it will bring a series of problems.
Early in the software industry, you will find there is a common phenomenon, undergraduate, or graduate Some college graduate to go to a job interview they will find the interview down the ability of the code may not be good, in which case the company will ask you willing to do the test? But with the change before the present era, and now the software test engineer, his knowledge, and what he needs to master far more than can be said that his knowledge is far more than the development of such technology in some the surface, as well as the understanding of the product.
So in this case, we could mention a good core value of software test engineer, we can confidently say, is a test engineer can not be replaced, and is a specialization of the field. Like the early years, when we talk about testing, software testing is no market segment, but now you talk about the test, the test is now too much of the field, in addition, based on test business in the traditional sense, then there is a test development.
6. Why companies do not want to give you a high salary?
I often have practitioner advice: "how to switch jobs Test Development Test Development jobs how to start test development job in the end is what to do need to know what knowledge???? '
In fact, ah, I ask these questions, you may be less suitable for this job. Or you just heard that test development of high wages, salaries and ran to, maybe you totally unsuitable.
As before the introduction of test development articles: a monthly salary of 30K +, high salary? What they get is a text test development! As mentioned in the post now test development in each company are set, and test development post usually wore "high salary" in the title (at least in this field test, test development of common salaries are higher than the manual testing services many), manual testing more and more people are eager to test development to job transfer, I do not know but often only need to see the development of high-test post salary, but it misses the most important point (those who pay high salaries the effort is also more than you!) Let us take a look at the following Ikunori fellow human voice. (Ever and when, I am reading the text you think so?)
- A lot of QQ group, micro-channel test peer groups often complain that daily testing work force dry bitter, dry living no less, no less plus overtime, but wages, bonuses than other post (such as development) bring less.
- Testing done for several years, but the time to go out job hunting, repeatedly rebuffed, he will not get their satisfaction with the salary Offer.
- Test post not think "money", the content of the work done does not make sense, as early as possible transfer development, product.
The reason why there will be many industry practitioners have aspirations above points, the core of the problem still think of their work salary resulting dry live and they want to get in return can not match on. As Ma said before, the reason employees leave, in the final analysis only two: 1, did not give enough money. 2, the platform can not stretch to feel wronged .
I believe that most people are "down" in the first point on the cause. Why pay is always open enterprise can not meet the requirements of "most employees" in it? I could not afford to pay businesses to open? But we in the same company, and why there are other jobs "test development", "development" high salary this statement? This is clearly not the company can not take a salary, but that the value of TA Enterprise can help companies bring only worth so much.
7. misunderstanding of well-paid positions
Whether "test development" or "development", wore "high wage" this general statement, where the majority of this statement or misunderstanding, not the so-called "post salary theory" that made this post, there must be a high salary, Imagine, there are also many developers, but not on the payroll is higher than the test cattle. And those "who are well-paid jobs" has a reason, but also because they have a higher capacity and can bring value to the company. Therefore, `paying! = `Jobs, while paying ** should be matched to equal the capacity and energy for the enterprise value equivalent **.
This view, also responded to just above mentioned, more and more people want to switch to manual testing test development. But not the key switch to test development, if there is no ability to change, just change the title of the post, even if you arrange a title or development of test development, but also just in your ability to do some superficial work, then enterprises are still not likely to pay for you. The test development has paid all claims, is due to present their overall ability to test development has been developed as much as their technical competence and ability to solve business problems better than even developed in some areas. So companies are willing to pay a reward for those who paid.
I think for those who want to job transfer or blame themselves for low wage workers, cut a Bong: reorientation is not the ultimate goal, to enhance their capacity is fundamental . If you have enough outstanding ability, you can team, has exceeded the value of the enterprise's need to provide testing, even if only wore the title of business test, I believe that companies are still willing to pay a correspondingly high returns for you.
8. How to create a personal core competence
Those who want high salaries or job transfer is to be the students test development needs to be done should be to continuously upgrade their capabilities and value points, these points based on the value of the team, the company is nothing more than two kinds of capacity: 1 comprehensive technical capabilities, 2. help products business problem-solving abilities.
1. enhance the comprehensive technical capabilities when it comes to technology, the first hurdle: the development of language (whether Python, or Java, it does not matter really, to get to know a repeat).
Before the independent development of a set of things available. As you write code for high performance, high availability, to be put up. But at least get through the line and code that implements the business side needs it?
Many test students asked, in the end learn Python or to learn Java? Six months later, you learn to ask him Zeyang, he may still entangled that: "in the end is to learn Python or to learn Java?" Question, did not even start school.
"Learning this, the reason everything, is the lack of action." Although this sentence, looks like crap, but it is true.
In many cases, those watching: "know that they have the ability to question, Diansha want to learn something, others should learn what advice everywhere, after obtaining the answer, still half a year without action" (do not laugh, you see the article, perhaps).
Otherwise, how could occur: in the market, would like to hire some practitioners fly, so difficult. See a lot of companies, took a few months to recruit the right people, although there are reasons for the company, but does not meet the capacity of job seekers, it is a big part of the reason.
In the development of the industry, have been guarding "their business knowledge that point, testing processes, tools a few years ago," the students, too. Before borrowing point of view, on a regular basis to talk out of the interview, you will find that you can not find a suitable job.
If you are still entangled learn what development language, do not tangle, now, now, start learning Python.
Python is easy to start, simple, easy to use. And, if we did not test developed by Python can also be Fun variety of automated testing.
OK, as content, it is some of the views of the tests (development) Engineer core competitiveness, taken from a portion of the length of the contents of my public number, represent the personal views.