What Do Software Testers Do?

AlexQin

Software Testers Can Also Help Improve Others!

Practically we can do things like:

• Help prepare user guides
• Sharing useful articles and other items with team members
• Recommending changes to processes
• Support testers in finding relevant information
• Blog and write about testing things
• Contributing to the company testing guild
• Coach developers (or anyone!) about testing
• Do presentations
• Attend or organise activities like Lean Coffee
• Give experience reports
• Documenting the testing
• Training others
• Introducing new processes
• share resources (like books!)
• Introducing others to the community
  
  

AlexQin

Software Testers Really Can Work With Others

• Talking to stakeholders, customers, engineers, management; anyone and everyone
• Working with developers to solve problems
• Collaborating with all team members
• Encouraging developers to provide fix details and retest guidance for bug fixes
• Herding sheep
• Reviewing code
• Suggesting enhancements to the product
• Pairing with developers
• Working with project/program managers to find gaps in requirements/user stories/specifications/use cases
• Assisting with investigation of customer issues
• Providing information to others about the state of the software
• Discussing feature design with UX designers and developers
• Participating in the daily standup meeting
• Attending showcases and demo’s
• Chatting
• Offering help
• Working with other testers
• Acting as the “corporate memory” for past changes and problems
• Helping developers fail fast
• Helping clients test changes
• Being the interface between development and business, explaining things to each side in terms they understand.
• Helping stakeholders make their expectations about the software more clear
• Supporting users
• Making others tea and coffee
• Peer reviewing
• Attending planning meetings
• Socialising, selling, explaining, justifying testing efforts
• Changing mindsets
• Hosting the test case review meeting
• Improving product testability
  
  

voca

水禽，你再来个翻译版呗

AlexQin

voca 发表于 2016-2-3 10:24
水禽，你再来个翻译版呗

有时间再干

AlexQin

good job