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Is professional software testing a dying profession?

  • -In a start up company, software testers are often not required, at initial stage. -Many manual testing are replaced by automated testing, or dog-fooding within the company. -Test automation are often done at unit level, integration/module level, where these tests sit closely with code, so developers are at a natural position to write them, thus eliminating the need for testers to write these tests. -For a well architected software system, if each module/service/systems are tested at an appropriate level thoroughly, one do not need to write a large amount of expensive and long running end to end automated tests (maybe still need some of these end to end tests for critical systems, e,g: security settings in Facebook, to make sure it is absolutely working), so potentially the demand for testers to write "end-to-end" or "behavioral" tests are getting less and less, plus developers can write these tests as well. -Many companies, especially internet start ups are moving towards a A/B testing approach, they try to release faster, to a selected group of users first, then iron out production issues through a continuous delivery process, then release to the entire user base. It's a ship first then fix it approach. Thus the traditional-thorough-testing-it-up approach is expensive and unnecessary, what is there to test if we haven't figure out what users want? (well, except rocket launching business, when you screw up you screw up big time and you can see big fireworks :P) -Dedicated testers are often treated as second class citizen in many companies, automation testers may get a bit more respect, but deep down many developers still see performing testing as something everyone can do, or easy to pickup. So giving the above arguments, are software testers still required, in the next couple of years, or decades? Prefer answers from both startup world and established big corporate world. Prefer elaborated answers rather than: "Just become a developer" "become a developer is not as hard as you might think", many people that I know are not interested or enjoying writing code on a daily basis.

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    The truth is that developers do not like test...

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I am presently a programmer but come from a QA background, thus I have experienced both sides and I do not believe that manual QA testing is going away anytime soon. This is because there is more to software QA than just testing software. In most circumstances, software testers have a higher degree of domain knowledge than the developers who write the code and it is this domain knowledge where they draw their value from. I've implemented a UI Test Automation Framework in my last role as a QA Analyst and I can say that this will never replace manual testing as all it can do is validate that there are no severe regression issues. Also, for as much talk about TDD and Unit Testing that there is, the truth is that for most software shops, this is beyond scope as these techniques work best when developing new software from scratch and not in already existing code bases, as well as the fact that they carry their own (high) cost to implement and maintain.

Cesar Rosales

Automation cannot replace manual Testing in many  areas: 1)  I cannot verify the position of UI elements alignments which may be important to some application 2)IF  application is  small and last 6months and assume releases in agile we will not get time to automate tests . 3)And We need a tester to automate tests and mainly to maintain it we need some one to look into it scripts .

Gurunag Chalasani

I say no and here's a small clip where I discuss this.

Eliot Pearson

Perhaps. Remember:  Fast, Good or Cheap. Pick two. Right now, Fast and Cheap are winning by a huge margin which is death to testing.  If Good and Fast start winning separate testing departments will flourish again.   In our very young industry there have already been cycles where testers are gods and when they are all fired.

Brandy Galos

Software Testing profession is not a dying profession infact now a days it has equal opportunities  as a software developer. With out testing any application if we release the product in to live the effect of bugs may have negative impact severely. To avoid this type of problems many IT companies are recruiting Software Testers to release their bug free product.For more details Visit: http://www.steinmetzils.com/

Steinmetzils

Testing is never dying profession until entire software development industry is going to die... Indeed there are several places where QA persons won't get the creditability as they deserve or won't get needed attentions because people don't give them so much of important but these people only tolerate loss in approaching future.

Suraj Gupta

Testing is always required. Testing is going to next level i.e. automated testing. But testing will always be required. Also using developer as a tester is not a good idea.

Mayur Shah

There are some assumptions made here. Firstly as your code base grows and becomes more complex, automated tests can generate both false positives  and false negatives. So you still need human eyes to detect that. Secondly high quality exploratory testing cannot be fully automated because there the tester does not follow a written test script. For example, how do you automate a scenario where you want to test whether the colours used in an app are appropriately rendering in sunny, cloudy weather or in low light conditions? Having said that most scripted testing can be or rather must be automated. It's huge benefit specially when want to go agile. However if everything could be automated companies like ours would be completely out of business :) - In case your start up needs testing head over to - http://2debug.com/Home/Contact

Tracy Samuel

Definitely No. I find issues in gmail even now where the mail count goes in the negative as i keep deleting mails for a specific usecase. I am not a developer at google, which just means developers can not find all the issues. I find issues on expensify which used to crash all the time i open it from a dormant state. Business standard app crashes for a similar use case. Am not developer at these places too, which just means people outside of the development org find quite a few bugs which users actually use. With the number of user going up exponentially along with the hardware that its being used on, developer testing is good but can not end there. People outside of it are still required to find bugs. Its a normal story where we find issues in higher version of the browser and not on the lower. Be it backward compatibility or hardware or software compatibility with 3rd party apps ... agile manifest says its all... quality is everyone's job. Testers add value, not beyond that. Still, customers beyond my finish line find issues, but defnitely they wouldnt be with the product if they found 10% of what I found. Thats what all professions do. They add value to a customer usecase, and a profession which adds value would be paid - the pay just depends on the measure of value you add. That said, will automation replace professional testers? Not really until all the apps out there have stopped adding features or stories to their roadmap.  A better answer for testers to search for is - can the professional testers ask for more money than developers?

Santhosh Kartha

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