Everyone want to be good at their job. But what’s make they good at it, especially in software tester. I came on a list “10 Qualities that Can Make You a Good Tester” on a blog website. The blog points out 10 points of what make person is a good tester, though the rich experience in the industry by the author. Other than the obvious, tester make sure the code work correctly, there are more to it. Tester need to have the overall look on the project, why the code work and not work. What is the cause and how it effects the consumer and developer.
I thought understand priorities is very important. Tester usually have the list of tests to check, but they need to know which test is important and and plan to doing it. Ask question, to understand the overall picture, I learned that though my project at school. When we look at the code the setup by others, there will be questions on what they mean by it. Team player and good communication is great for tester, we always have connection to the developer and consumer. By understand problems easily, we can be more effective, save time and money. Positive attitude is also important, overall job of tester is to help others. This is not just applying to tester, but to overall everyone, though positive attitude we can make the production better overall. The last progress of tester usually is report, tester need to have detail and easy to understand on what the issue of the application. Think of the issue not just how it effects the project, that tester assign to, but on how it effects on the real-world application. From the point of view as end-user. This is good list on overall what make testers good. We need to keep these points in mind, in any computer career. It will help us on long term.
From the blog CS@Worcester – Nhat's Blog by Nhat Truong Le and used with permission of the author. All other rights reserved by the author.