I Have Finished My Computer Engineering. How Is the Software Testing Field for a Future Scope? Is It

I have finished my computer engineering. How is the software testing field for a future scope? Is it good or boring?

Software Testing has a huge scope currently and will continue in the future as well. Two types of testing :ManualAutomationIn manual testing, you get very good product knowledge and get to think of plenty of scenarios to test a product. Writing manual test cases is an art :)The best thing about automation testing is that you get to work on different types of testing tools and programming languages. You always have something new and interesting to learn.Like, I worked on a web application using Selenium RC/JAVA in my first project. Then in my second project I got to work on Cucumber/Ruby. Now, in my third project it it Selenium Webdriver/C#.I have never found my job boring, as it is not monotonous and throws new challenges .If you are willing to learn, this is your place.

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Which general features are a must for the GUI of a software for testing (the software's purpose is to run tests)?

Since effective test automation runs automatically, I would see no need for a GUI

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How can I justify software testing to management?

Do not waste time on number crunching. It's not compelling. Everyone disputes the details. Instead, focus on specific risk scenarios.Poor (or no) testing == failure in production == loss of revenue (or worse). Follow this line of reasoning with specific losses that can accrue from software failures. Be detailed and focused so that the logic of "loss comes from bad software comes from bad testing" is inescapable.What happens is -- of course -- focus on the specific risk scenarios. But that's better than no focus at all.Very, very specific stories are easier to use than general studies and summarized numbers. It's even better when you can tie historical events, specific customers or products, or other factual details to your risk scenario."Remember when we spent 18 hours trying to fix the [X] product software? How much revenue did we lose from cancelled orders? And help desk calls?"

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What are some of the best Software Testing Courses for a beginner? [closed]

Although I have voted this to be closed, because this is a primarily opinion based question- best is a subjective term which is dependent on a person's perspective of best.Instead of Testing courses, I can give you a good list of reading materials though- because this website is a store house of these kinda things.Blogs to follow to further learningHow can I transition into getting into QA?How to become a good QA employeeSuggested books to start on software testingAnother point : Before you post, please research a bit, because this question has been asked N times, with the same answer.

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How do I learn software testing?

Do you want to start testing on your project but struggling with the most basic steps like:How to introduce test automation on your project?How to select the best and the right automation tool?How to develop scripts effectively?How to execute and maintain test scripts?and finally what are the best practices you need to follow for successful automation testing?Today, we are starting a short but useful series of tutorials on "Getting started with Automation Testing". In this automation testing tutorial series we will answer all above questions with step by step simple examples

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How would you explain software testing in layman's terms?

Let's say that you write a block of code that implements a feature or a small algorithm.How do you know that your algorithm is correct?By testing it, right. You provide different kinds of inputs for eg: positive numbers, negative numbers, null, empty list or any thing that you could think of so that the algorithm runs for all possible cases that could be thought of. Now, just imagine that you are working on a 5000 lines of code software where there are dependencies between classes and operations that constitute to let's say 80 use cases By use cases, I mean, It should be able to add, It should be able to download an excel, It should be able to flip the trigger on completion of this task etc depending on the Software's requirements.Let's say that you have added a new feature to your software. How do you know that the existing use cases do not fail?Would you want to test out all the 80 earlier use cases manually for quality assurance? That's a herculean task !Here comes your automated software test suites where you write unit tests against the functional use cases of the code you have written which means whenever you add a new feature to the software, you just have to run the software test suite and if the new feature breaches any of the existing use cases, your unit tests should fail and you should make necessary ramifications to your new feature so that it adheres to the test suite. Also, you should add a unit test for your new feature so that if some unprecedented change occurs in the code, your unit tests should throw necessary assertions .These were just the unit tests that run at the build time against the code that you have written. There are other types of tests as well like Integration tests that encapsulate your end to end feature testing viz two of your modules might work individually but together, let's say that they don't work as expected, the unit tests in this case would pass but the integration tests would fail. Also, If you have any external dependencies in your code, you stub/mock them in the unit tests because the unit tests are against the code that you have written. If the external service is down, your unit tests should not fail. They should be reproducible. However, Integration tests need not have mocks and can call the external service to fetch the data. One other important kind of tests are the performance/load tests . Let's say you are building a service which is supposed to be hit at a 10 TPS How would you validate if your resources are enough to provide the results at that TPS?How would you ensure that you don't run out of memory?How do you ensure that there is no heap dump/ memory leak?How do you ensure that you don't breach out the upper limit on the promised latency in production?You might need to re-evaluate your low level design to adhere to all these tenets which cannot be done in production on trial and error basis. So, with the help of load generators/custom scripts, you try to generate that amount of load on your service and monitor various metrics to check how well is your service performing. There are various other types of tests but the above ones were the most important ones in the Software Industry.You could begin with the following to start off with Software Testing :Unit Testing with JUnit - TutorialMockito framework siteHow would you explain software testing in layman's terms?