Manual Testing

Preethu

Hello all,
I am newbie to the technical world. I've just completed my graduation and now I'm in search of a job. Few of my friends recommended Manual testing as a career? Is it a good domain? If yes, I'll be joining Manual Testing Training in Chennai by the end of this month. Any suggestions regarding this would be greatly helpful. Thanks in advance.

tacpot12

Yes, Manual Testing (as opposed to Automated Testing) is a good field to get into. There are some very specific skills required when designing and planning testing, so becoming proficient in these skills should make for a good long-term career. Automated testing is becoming more common, but manual testing experts are usually required to design the automated testing, and there are somethings that automated testing is not always capable of, so it looks like there will be a long-term requirement for manual testing.

The role might also lead to opportunities is data management, and even programming, if you have an apptitude for this - sometimes manual testers can be required to write simple programs to generate large quantaties of test data. Having the tester write such programs provides a degree of insurance against assumptions being carried over into testing from the programming team.

JJ_Egan

But does that comment above apply to India ??

Stoke

As a software engineer, we work with testers all the time and it requires a certain way of thinking that most engineers don't really possess, at least not naturally. It requires you to think in a way that most people wouldn't think, because your aim isn't to test the obvious, because an engineer can do that, your role is to discover tiny edge cases that require a specific pattern of events, of which most engineers simply won't think up.

Financially, engineering obviously pays better than testing. Just one of those things. You might want to consider some further education in SW engineering and look into getting into that. It pays great and I go to work feeling fairly fulfilled, which many don't get to say. Testing however is a good start and you could potentially do both and then crossover when you are fully skilled in engineering.

BDDazza

Preethu wrote: »

Hello all,
I am newbie to the technical world. I've just completed my graduation and now I'm in search of a job. Few of my friends recommended Manual testing as a career? Is it a good domain? If yes, I'll be joining Manual Testing Training in Chennai by the end of this month. Any suggestions regarding this would be greatly helpful. Thanks in advance.

Hi,

Testing is a really lucrative and fulfilling long term career. Its a career most graduates are not exposed to, usually because their filtered into the programming or networking route.

Before joining an academy, get the fundamentals under your belt. Go on Amazon and find a book on the topic. There is a book by Peter Morgan and Angelina Samaroo which i highly recommend.

Afterwards, work towards getting ISTQB certified as most jobs will require it before hiring you.

You can download practice question for your ISTQB exam here:

http://www.iseb-software-testing.co.uk/