How to manage a testing team

First of all, software test managers themselves need to clearly know their responsibilities in the company, rather than complying with development or customer service requirements without having independent opinions. Clear test management goals are one of the elements for successful test team management. The test manager or team leader needs to play an active role in the project, strictly control the software quality, and actively coordinate the relationship with development, product management, market customer service, and project leadership.

Secondly, when recruiting test team members, we must first recruit suitable test talents. This is the basic guarantee for testing. In the current work, the quality of software testers is really uneven. A good-quality software tester must at least have good communication skills, solid professional basic knowledge, and the ability to learn new knowledge.

?Third, the training issue of testers. For companies that do not have very strong financial strength, it is generally recommended to use the method of organizing training by the company itself. Generally, there are special training on professional knowledge, special training on projects, and comprehensive product knowledge training. For testers, improving knowledge is also one of the ways to increase cohesion in the testing team.

1. Generally speaking, it is recommended that new employees receive professional product knowledge training first, and colleagues can conduct it based on testing theory. Training coaches generally choose experienced project team employees.

2. Provide training on new testing methods and development methods to those who have been employed for several years so that they can maintain their enthusiasm for testing technology.

3. Senior professional testers should be given training on the latest test architecture design knowledge, encouraged to apply new testing methods to projects, and take on the role of test coaches.

Fourth, cultivate the communication skills of software testers. Nowadays, project communication is very important. When the test team is running, how to deal with the relationship between development and testing and product management personnel is very important. Test problems often occur A situation of blame game with development. So how to avoid the above situation:

1. Allow testers to participate in the project early;

2. Develop testers’ communication skills and abilities;

3. Organize exchange activities for testers and developers;

4. Dare to take responsibility, be good at finding problems, and submit them to developers in a timely manner;

5. Treat bugs correctly, finding problems, not developing For personnel issues, *** should all contribute to product quality;

6. Let the testers understand part of the development knowledge and share the same topics, so that communication will not be too difficult;< /p>

7. Developers should understand that testing is not to find faults, but to help analyze problems and speed up development;

Fifth, how to cultivate a good mentality among test employees. Many people feel that testing is boring. , so how to eliminate boredom?

1. Pay attention to cultivating product quality awareness. When testing, you are creating benefits for the company; then you will not think that testing is useless;

2. Carry out learning in all aspects , to increase interest in work;

3. Carry out bug-finding competitions and refine assessment indicators;

4. Organize some small activities in the spare time to improve team cohesion and enrich spare time life;

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5. Think of ways to improve the working environment.

6. Carry out technical expert evaluations, creative competitions, etc.

Sixth, test project management, this requires reasonable arrangements for testers and good plans, not like fire fighters. The main thing is to test the quality of management personnel. For testers, in addition to maintaining industry, they also require good quality and a good degree of tightness among colleagues.

Seventh, the most critical thing is that as the test leader, you need to fight for your position and resources in the project, so as to give testers a motivation. Material security.