What if the content of software testing is too simple?

I often hear some friends who do functional tests communicate , Do manual tests every day , If you want to improve yourself, you don't know how to improve ？ As a functional tester , From the development direction, it can be divided into two aspects ： Business process direction and professional skills direction . When determining the good side backward , The next step is how to achieve .

One 、 Business process direction

1、 Familiar with the underlying business As a functional test engineer , Understand the development framework 、 The developed business design process and the underlying structure of the database , No matter Is it for us to be familiar with the business or to locate problems encountered in the test process , Can bring us great help . therefore In this regard, it is recommended that you try to participate in the design review 、 Database review , In addition, I am participating in the development design review and database review Problems can be found in advance during the trial . Take a very simple example , I've really encountered it in my work before , Development in design data library , Will a URL The field is designed to 64 Length string , It must be unreasonable , by URL The length of can easily exceed 64. When we ask this question , It is also equivalent to finding and solving problems in advance .

2、 Optimize the development process of the project Another aspect , You can improve yourself from the process optimization of the project . The quality of products never depends on one person , It needs to be rectified Teams attach importance to the quality of products , Testing in the process can require self-test before development and test transfer , When switching to test , Smoke measurement first try , After passing the smoke test, it will be transferred to the test stage . If there are multiple test engineers during product testing , Cross testing can be done , In order to find some hidden BUG.

3、 Repeat at any time , Summarize the precipitation work experience You can also redo , Sum up work experience , To promote . For example, ensure the coverage of use cases , Whether it is through use case review good , Or through work experience , Try to ensure that there are no missing function points in the use case . meanwhile , When the product goes online , If in There is a problem online , Be sure to summarize and analyze the reasons for missing measurement , Avoid the same problems and mistakes next time .

Two 、 Professional skills

1、 Learning a language Professional skills can be improved by learning a language , Future companies will have higher and higher requirements for testing , Knowing a language is As the basis for the development and improvement of automated testing , Whether it's study Java perhaps Python Fine .

2、 Learning automation When you have a language foundation , You can learn some automated testing frameworks based on this language , Such as interface automation （python Of requests)、web automation (selenium The test framework ) perhaps app automation (appium The test framework ) wait , Finally through automatic To realize our main functions of regression test or smoke test , In order to reduce our workload , Improve work efficiency .

3、 Learning performance test You can also learn how to use some performance testing tools , such as jmeter perhaps loadrunner. When the product system is stable , Can pass The performance test tool tests the performance of the product , To determine whether the performance of the product meets the requirements .