Software Testing is not an easy job

Testing is not an easy job as people think about it. Everybody from the project manger to developers feels that software testing is a easy job in which you have to just test OR validate the software against the written set of requirements and for this ask they write the test cases for it and execute them on the product. This is totally true but this is just one side of the whole picture. Every software testers primary job is to test the software and make sure that it working as per the requirements. But here is the twist for performing this task he has to –

- Have thorough knowledge of the system under development which can be as vast as knowledge of the different modules of the system how these modules interact with each other, data flow between these modules and many more things. In contrast to this developers are confined to their individual modules, they are more concerned with the output of their module and many times it happens that they shed of their responsibilities by saying “I am sending data properly and in desired format from my screen/module (Say Module A) but if other module (Say Module B) is not fetching it then it’s not my job” . At this note, testers job is to find out this integration defect and let them know what is expected so a testers should know the functionality of module A , module B and the purpose of integrating these modules.
- Testers need to have ‘End User’ mindset to test the software. They need to think in the same way as the end users uses the software. At the same time they need to follow the documented requirements only then they will be able to deliver quality product. So they have a dual responsibility of their shoulders.
- Moreover they need to have domain knowledge of the industry which the software is catering and the knowledge of the current process practiced by the client. As for developers this is not as important.
- They need to test the software on wide range of data as against small set of data tested by developers in unit testing phase.

So please do not consider testing as easy job !.................