10 reasons why You are NOT a Professional Tester!

AlexQin

10. The only idea you have about a career path involves becoming a manager or moving on to another career

Some people get into testing because they think it is a good path into programming. Others do because they don’t know what testing is about and it sounds cool to “play” with applications all day long. After all, how hard can it be, right?

Part of them can end up been good testers. But most of them will end up frustrated, counting the days until they can stop testing and start doing the work they really wanted to do. While others don’t appreciate the real challenges of testing, and think the only way to move forward is to start managing people.

It is true there are challenges and rewards to managing a testing team, but there are also countless disciplines to conquer that are not related to management and that may give you even more challenges and bigger rewards (and definitely a lot less headaches!)

My point is that, if all the time you are looking to do something else and not focusing on how to test better, there is no way you can do it more professionally. So think if you are in the right place, or if maybe you should simply be looking for something else…?

AlexQin

Want to be professional? Start by looking at testing as a profession!

Looking at these ten points from 20,000 feet I think the line connecting them is the call to change our general approach to testing.

The first step is to start considering testing as OUR Profession.

Once we absorb this first step, the second one is to look at what we are missing in order to become better testers. What areas should we develop? How do we need to approach our work and the relationships with our customers and team mates? And what can we do NOW in order to increase the value of our work?

The third and last step (at least for this short approach) is to plan ahead how to improve, and to realize that as a profession we have much to learn before considering ourselves gurus or experts (if there is such a thing…)

The important thing is to realize that the change needs to come from within, and not from some God-given decree or from the title next to the name in our email’s signatures.

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AlexQin

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AlexQin

So, if a tester does not get involved early in the life cycle, he is not a good tester? Let us try not to be at the extremes. Testing, at all levels, is required. Testing with predefined test cases ALSO is required. Technical tests brings about another dimension to the depth of testing. In the effort of promoting in-depth testing, please don’t undermine the value of the rest of the testing levels.

Both has pros and cons; let us accept that….

AlexQin

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AlexQin

good job