Career paths, training and learning resources in software test engineering

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© Dr. Vahid Garousi
Career paths, training and learning resources in
software test engineering
Doç. Dr. Vahid GAROUSİ
Associate Professor of Software Engineering
Senior Software Consultant
vahid.garousi@hacettepe.edu.tr
http://web.cs.hacettepe.edu.tr/~vahid
@vgarousi
Yazılım Mühendisliği Araştırma Grubu
Bilgisayar Mühendisliği Bölümü
Hacettepe Üniversitesi, Ankara

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Brief biography of the Speaker
 Work experience:
 Hacettepe University, Ankara, Türkiye, Feb. 2015-
 Atılım University, Ankara, Türkiye, 2014
 Middle East Technical University, Ankara, Türkiye, 2013
 Founder, Maral Software Consulting Corporation, 2008-
 University of Calgary, Canada, 2006-2013
 Education:
 PhD (Carleton University, Canada), 2006
 MSc (University of Waterloo, Canada), 2003
 BSc (Sharif University of Technology, Tehran, Iran), 2000
 Research and consulting expertise:
 Software Engineering
 Software Testing and Quality Assurance (QA)
 Software Requirements and Software Maintenance
 “Action research”, i.e., industry-academia collaborations
 Cultural and ethnic backgrounds:
 Canadian, Turkish, Iranian

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Outline
 Importance of SW testing: why do we need testers!?
 We all know it, but let’s review again quickly!
 Career paths in software testing
 Education and learning resources

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Why is SW testing important?
 A study by the American National
Institute of Standards and
Technology (NIST) in 2002: The
annual national cost of inadequate
testing is as much as $59 Billion
US!
 The report is titled: “The
Economic Impacts of
Inadequate Infrastructure for
Software Testing”
 http://www.nist.gov/public_affairs/releases/n02-10.htm

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Examples of Software Failures

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Outline

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First, a review of…
 Career paths in software engineering

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Career paths in software testing: proposed in an online source
www.slideshare.net/kiranmalla/software-testing-overview-for-students-9887357

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Career paths: proposed by the British Computer Society (BCS)

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Career paths in software testing
 Sources of information that I have used:
 Google and the internet
 My own experience in working with testers in Canada and Turkey

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 Many interesting resources are online: white papers,
technical papers, blogs, etc.

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Career paths: the case of the AT&T

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Better career growth in Software Testing
 Question:
 Answer:
 “To your question, career growth in testing has to do not only with automation
but with development of test plans, test tools, test frameworks and test
strategies that will ultimately improve the quality of the products that the
company sells and reduce the time spent fixing potential problems. That is
money, my friend.
And if you find and implement a way to save money or make more money for
any company in the world, you'll be promoted.”

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READ MORE ONLINE: Career paths in software testing
 More online sources: white papers, technical papers,
blogs, etc.

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Outline
 Education and learning resources: to enable SELF
LEARNING
 Online sources (such as blogs and videos)
 Courses in universities (in Ankara)
 Books

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Learning resources - Videos
 LOTS …!
 Over 215,000 videos for Selenium only

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 Mostly in English!
 For non-technical subjects too, e.g., managerial and motivational…

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 Google Test Automation Conference (GTAC), each year

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Learning resources – Blogs and websites
 Again LOTS …

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Learning resources – Blogs and websites

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Outline
 Courses in universities in Ankara
 Books

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SW testing courses in universities in Ankara

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The SW testing course in Hacettepe University
 Contents:
A good balance
between theory and
practice

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 Not that theoretical, but instead “practical” and hands-on
 Covers most phases of testing, e.g., unit and system testing
 Emphasis on test automation

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 Lab 1: Introduction to Testing and Defect Tracking. Goals:
 Getting hands-on experience in ad-hoc, manual and regression testing
 Using industrial defect tracking practices and tools
 Experiencing that ad-hoc manual testing is not always very effective
 SUT: An ATM simulation system
 Testing support tool: JIRA, Bugzilla, the Google issue tracking tool
 Realistic defects were manually injected in the SUT

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 Lab 2: Black-box Testing and API-Based Unit Testing using JUnit
 SUT: JFreeChart
 Testing tool: JUnit

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 Lab 5: Web application testing with Selenium
 Testing tool: Selenium
 Detailed lab instruction

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Outline
 Courses in universities in Ankara
 Books on SW testing

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Learning resources – Books on SW testing
 Again LOTS …

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 Again LOTS …
 259 books on SW testing between 1979 and 2015

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 Different types:
 Conceptual, theory
 Test automation
 Tool specific
 Company specific
 Exam preparation
 …

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 Conceptual, theory
 Test automation
 Tool specific
 …

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 Conceptual, concepts
 Automation
 Tool specific
 …

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Summary of the talk
 There is a large demand for test engineers
 Supply versus Demand for jobs
 We constantly hear that companies have hard time
finding “highly-qualified” test engineers!
 Being highly qualified is important
Demand for (good) developers < Demand for (good) testers
 By learning from the vast amount of resources and
courses…
 You can have a great career paths in software testing!

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BACK UP

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Also, called QA in
many companies

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Learning resources – Books
 Using www.wordle.net

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END of talk

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Learning resources – Books
 Again LOTS …

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Did you know that?
 Software Testing is not just bunch of
Definitions and Automation Tools only
 “Software Testing is questioning a product in
order to evaluate it.” - James Bach
 Testing is not Checking

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 www.softwaretestinghelp.com/career-options-for-software-test-professionals

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Better career growth in Software Testing
 Q:

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Career paths, training and learning resources in
software test engineering
Yazılım test mühendisliğinde kariyer patikaları ve
eğitim
Doç. Dr. Vahid GAROUSİ
Associate Professor of Software Engineering
Senior Software Consultant
vahid.garousi@hacettepe.edu.tr
http://web.cs.hacettepe.edu.tr/~vahid
@vgarousi
Yazılım Mühendisliği Araştırma Grubu
Bilgisayar Mühendisliği Bölümü
Hacettepe Üniversitesi, Ankara

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