WE ARE SOFTWARE TESTERS...!!!!

Developers make something & we break it…..!!! but we break it because we care. We don’t make software but we make software better…!!! Developers love their model but we say “don’t fall in love with model…” because we are defect finders always…!!

We are testers. As such, most of the time we aren't driving the company. Essential operational decisions are made by someone else (project manager). But if we are not the drivers, our position is certainly close to this of a backseat driver. we have our maps, good knowledge of the area and our experience; and we give advice that is used to take real decisions. So don’t be a drunken backseat driver, it’s dangerous!

Once the Director of a software company proudly announced that a flight software developed by the company was installed in an airplane and the airlines was offering free first flights to the members of the company. “Who are interested?” the Director asked. Nobody came forward. Finally, one person volunteered. The brave Software Tester stated, ‘I will do it. I know that the airplane will not be able to take off.’ !!! that is the confidence…!!! Such  high confidence exists  only in  a software tester..!!!

Testers right attitude: First realize how important testing activity is. No matter how much developing effort has been spent on making a highly desirable product with state of the art technology, if it does not correctly do what it is supposed to do, then it is doomed to death. An improperly tested application reaching customers directly translates to loss of business.

The right attitude of a tester is he/she must find satisfaction or joy in hunting down bugs and vice verse.

What testers can do…???

Testers can “turn the coverage dial” to achieve maximum efficiency with a minimal number of tests)

• The efficiency and effectiveness benefits of pairwise testing have been demonstrated in testing projects every major industry.

• Thoroughness – Testers can also “turn the coverage dial” to achieve maximum thoroughness if that is their goal. More coverage of combinations of test inputs.

The job of a tester is to put together a meaningful plan & understand how the software is going to correspond to the business needs and test the main logical paths as well as some optional and failure paths and find out what the software really does as opposed to what people think it should do.

• A manual tester is concerned with the human experience of your software. Typically there will be a script of the exact actions or the class of actions the manual tester is expected to cover. Some firms roll regression testing and new feature testing into the manual tester’s role, others have a separate user-acceptance testing team who stand between released software and deployment.

We are precious....our place is very valuable in software industries...!!! Proud to be a software tester...!!! Because we always rock...!!!!!

Post by :- Komal Metkar

Published by ;- Pardha Saradhi