Let me share some fact about testing. I am over six years of experience today. When i entered the IT industry i too had the same feeling. Always wanted to do only development. Being a CS graduate from a NIT, computer programming always facsinated me. I joined a service industry in the interest of getting my H1B and to get a opening in the US i accepted testing job. Today from testing i moved to technical markeitng and working in the US for a product based client. This six years taught me many things. Just developing a product with pre-defined FS does not complete product development. Its only thorugh testing a product develops and grows to it full potential. Also the enhancement, future development and evolution of the product greatly depends upon testing. Tehnical Marketing brings the market demand to developemt team and gives direction for future product development. Testing team plays very important rule in product devlopent. Devlopment and testing are two sides of a coin. A product just can not exists either only with development or only with testing. A testing team member contributes as much as a developer contributes in a product. I dont agree that only devlopers has credit in product developmet.
RE:Why people take testing as low profile job?
by bobby ananda on Jul 20, 2007 02:18 AM Permalink
Bhagat u missed the whole point. Whether it is development or testing what we are debating is the creativity thing. NO NOVICE IDEA LANDING UP. Our competitor China is way ahead. See them coming up with new things in all the areas including hardware internals, down the line before many years China was said to be a no-good-duplicate product nation. Now they are not. R&D did work better for them. We got to appreicate and work accordingly.
RE:Why people take testing as low profile job?
by satya s on Jul 20, 2007 05:29 PM Permalink
The vision,market,quality has to exist first for the product to evolve.Testing is only relevant as long it helps to achieve the desired goals.
A product's competitive advantage often depends on its unique value and quality to its customers.
This is where developers are more vital.In ensuring a quality product comes out first.Then only it makes sense to evolve.
your points are taken and well made.
but if you look from a strategic viewpoint,quality is largely set by the time development is over.
Testing improves on it ofcourse.but its subsidary nevertheless
