This is the slide deck that Director of Delivery of KMS presented at Can Tho University on Saturday, September 28th, 2013.

1. BECOME SOFTWARE TESTER OR
DEVELOPER?
September 2013
KMS Technology - http://kms-technology.com
Vu Pham – Delivery Director vupham@kms-technology.com

2. TESTING – HOW MUCH YOU KNOW?
• Ratio between Developer – Tester in a IT company?
• Globalization is software testing?
• Any training program for Tester?
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4 MYTHS ABOUT
SOFTWARE TESTING

4. MYTH #1
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Reality:
- It takes hours to start testing job but years to be good
at it.
- Tester and developer requires two different set of skills
and mindset. Good developer can’t become good
tester.
- Big gap exists between junior and senior/expert tester.
“Software testing is easy job, any people can
become tester and no training is needed”

5. MYTH #2
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Reality:
- What you learn from university is just a starting point
for pursuit a career in IT.
- Automation, performance, security testing not only
require programming but also deep understanding
about system, technology.
- Java and .NET skills for Tester.
“Software testing doesn’t require programming”

6. MYTH #3
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Reality:
- Testing is not just test execution, you can see many
tester not doing testing
- Testing based on requirements only find 70% bugs.
Innovation helps tester find the rest
- We normally don’t know how user use the software 
strong analysis, deep domain knowledge, lateral
thinking is required for tester
“Software testing doesn’t require much analysis and
innovative thought”

7. MYTH #4
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Reality:
- A company likely will go to the end if releases a low
quality product.
- Role of tester now is not just testing. Combined skills
of (Developer + BA + Tester + Expertise User)
- Many IT companies in VN are testing service providers
– top management grew from testing
“Testing is not challenging so I don’t have much
chance to growth in testing career”
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BECOMING A GOOD
TESTER

9. SKILLS FOR TESTER
Essential skills for a tester
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Soft-killsTechnical
skills
Personal
Traits Attitude
I’m just graduated, how can I start my software testing career and
become success in career?

10. DISCOVER – TOOL FOR TESTER
• Define your career plan, analyze
strengths and weaknesses
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Determined

11. DISCOVER – TOOL FOR TESTER
• “Our testing is only as good as our
thinking”
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Determined
Innovative

12. DISCOVER – TOOL FOR TESTER
• Your communication is the key.
Leverage the power social media for
instant knowledge sharing
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Determined
Innovative
Social-ability

13. DISCOVER – TOOL FOR TESTER
• Not be intellectually, be intellectually
curious
– Does this functionality make any sense? Is
there a better way to implement this
feature? …
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Determined
Innovative
Social-ability
Curious

14. DISCOVER – TOOL FOR TESTER
• Need value from every hour spent on
testing  Time management
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Determined
Innovative
Social-ability
Curious
Objective

15. DISCOVER – TOOL FOR TESTER
• Think from the customer’s perspective
on the overall testing vision and quality
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Determined
Innovative
Social-ability
Curious
Objective
Visionary

16. DISCOVER – TOOL FOR TESTER
• Not tool and technology - Your brain,
your passion and your enthusiasm
matters the most
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Determined
Innovative
Social-ability
Curious
Objective
Visionary
Enthusiasm

17. DISCOVER – TOOL FOR TESTER
• Create a road map and execute
• Turn motivation into habit
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Determined
Innovative
Social-ability
Curious
Objective
Visionary
Enthusiasm
Roadmap

18. TAKE AWAY NOTE
• Vietnam is destination for software testing, currently
high resource demand
• 4 common misunderstanding about software testing
• DISCOVER – tool for tester
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 Who want to be tester?

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Q & A

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THANK YOU!!!!