Discussion on the development trend and viewpoint of testing industry

In recent years, with the rapid development of new IT industries such as artificial intelligence, Internet of Things, big data and cloud computing, the quality requirements of software products in various industries are getting higher and higher.

With the rapid development of the Internet industry and the rapid iteration of technology, more and more people expect to "fire up" through IT training.

BAT, Meituan, ByteDance, Motive and other companies have launched high-paying recruitment software testing talents.

In the information age of science and technology, everything changes rapidly, and the IT industry, as its core pillar, inevitably needs constant innovation.

At the same time, enterprises also put forward new requirements for testing talents. How to deal with future technological changes is a problem that every tester deserves to think deeply.

Many people are full of enthusiasm and infinite expectations for the future when they first enter the software testing industry.

But after several years of exploration, I gradually found that this industry is not as beautiful as I knew at first.

Compared with many promising articles advocating automation and performance testing on the Internet. I'd rather talk to you about something real.

Present situation and future of functional testing

At present, the entry threshold is very low. Basically, they don't graduate from computer science and don't know anything about computers. Or not graduated from a big company, through training to the outsourcing company to enter the testing position.

In practical work, even if there are requirements documents and test analysis, they are left behind, and the rest is only a little.

The future of functional testing?

In foreign countries, the composition of technology companies is very simple, and the technical backbone, product managers, developers and testing are basically outsourced. Why?

Because the cost is too high, if you recruit a test salary of 10k, plus insurance, it will cost at least 150000 a year, and if you recruit two people, it will be a personnel cost of 300000.

That company might as well outsource 200 thousand to other companies

In the future, there will be a large number of outsourcing companies like foreign countries, just like domestic garment processing factories, where companies do design and factories do processing.

The work is becoming more and more professional, the division of labor is more and more clear, and the company's functions are more clear, and more development posts and testing posts will be outsourced.

Therefore, functional testing may be monopolized by outsourcing companies, and the company's testing business will be more involved by outsourced personnel. The mode will be that one company will put management +n outsourcing tests, or all projects will be packaged and outsourced tests.

It is not absolute that functional testing will be monopolized by outsourcing, which is a phenomenon of two levels of differentiation. For projects with high concentration and large test scale, outsourcing is the first choice, which can save costs and is suitable for team warfare and rapid combat.

For many small and medium-sized companies, projects may exist in the form of workshops, and the project cycle is long, and the test team is relatively stable. But once the project is over, it is easy to dissolve or reorganize in other projects.

If it is a small and medium-sized company, the product team and the test team will be relatively solidified. Because most of the test engineers at this time are multifunctional, a few test tasks can be filled by quality management or other positions.

In addition to outsourcing, it will be extended.

In other words, many people who do not belong to the testing industry may expand their skills, and there will be many such roles.

Mainly for the mass testing needs of many products, they will replace the original pure manual testing workers, and the real users will evaluate the products, which will be more beneficial to enterprises.

And this situation will not generate any cost. I don't know if you have noticed that many apps have begun to participate in the internal testing of the user version. The test behaviors and problems caused by these people will be collected and analyzed by many cloud test services and monitoring sdk.

In addition, a large number of basic work test services or some test products, such as the most typical browser compatibility test, need to spend a lot of manpower to do, and now with a complete cloud test service, the cost can be easily reduced.

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It is also equipped with better products such as cloud monitoring and analysis, which will become a very important force in the testing industry.

Therefore, the content and responsibilities of testing have been transferred, but many training institutions in the market are still teaching such projects for software testing training.