Software Testing Views on Test Platforms

It will be a trend, but it is difficult for each company to complete a testbed independently

As mentioned earlier, the ability to complete the test platform is varied, so when you have so many skills, you may want a high salary, but from the perspective of domestic attitudes towards testing, its salaryIt will definitely be one level lower than the development (big factories ignore it), which becomes a vicious circle. The company wants low-cost labor to do the work of the test, and you want to get a higher salary as a test.

Therefore, there are many open source test platforms on the Internet. Generally, companies that are unable to develop platforms will privatize deployment and then customize secondary development. This is also a trend. There should be no sales of test platforms. After all, open sourceThey are all very beautiful and useful.

It is difficult for the test platform to adapt to all projects, including Alibaba. There are actually many test platforms, such as automation, performance, compatibility, and cloud real machine, but none of my departments are used. There are many reasons.I won't go into details

Is a testing platform a must for testing?

I don't think so

Although the test platform can reflect the ability of testing, it is not the only way

The test platform is not used in the actual project, is it necessary to learn?

As long as it is helpful to your own growth, you should actually learn, but it is just a priority

Assuming that you want to take the test and open route in the future, then it is not a bad idea to learn how to develop a test platform, of course, it will not affect the current work premise.

The premise of being a test platform

For individuals

Have a test platform project experience, which can improve the interview pass rate and own technical ability

For the team

It should be led by the Quality and Performance Department or the Infrastructure Department, not by the Business Testing Department. This should be a full-time job, and not something to do when you are free

Make sure you have your boss's support

Fully investigate the feasibility of the test platform, such as team composition, technology selection, acceptable loss range, the department using the platform, etc.

What are the responsibilities of the test opening in my mind

My supervisor talked to me, that a test does not have to be a test platform to be considered a test. A qualified test should be familiar with the programming language used in his project, as familiar as development.even more familiar than them

As a test, you can conduct code reviews for developers. Especially if new developers are new to the job, they may not be familiar with the business and code structure, and the code they write will be messy. At this time, if you are familiar with the whole set of codes, you are very familiarThis programming language, then you can put forward optimization suggestions, don't say it is impossible, my supervisor can do it, I am more familiar with programming languages ​​than development; in addition, you can write unit tests, our server-side unit test coverage is about 70%, soThe basic server has no bugs

Test development can be a development platform, a development tool, or a script, but it all has an ultimate purpose. Use your development skills to improve test efficiency, test breadth, and depth, and use higher test coverage.To ensure the quality of the project

Development tools can be secondary development open source frameworks, such as RF, or secondary development testing tools, such as Jmeter. The premise of secondary development is not to show your technology, but the current tools/framework cannot satisfy youThe test scenario of Jmeter, so you have to develop it twice to satisfy it; like in my project, because there is a self-developed rpc framework, it is necessary to develop the sampler of Jmeter twice to test normally

As for whether or not to develop a test platform, this can only depend on your own team