The need for having development/programming knowledge for Software Testers
In this Chapter, I am going to write about the need for having basic development knowledge for Software Testers. I have worked as both Programmer and Software Tester. So, I think I will be the appropriate person for writing this Chapter.
When I worked as Programmer/developer, I used to see many Software Testers who used to create poor test strategy due to their poor programming knowledge. And, it may be difficult to set up proper test environment without having proper programming knowledge.
Assume that a Software Tester is going to test a Web application. If something goes wrong while doing his testing, he should be able to report the issue clearly by mentioning whether the error is happening from client (i-e browser) side, network connection or server side. It will help the developers to fix the issues quickly.
For doing this narrow down, the Testers should know what is Client (webbrowser), how the server works and how internet is working.
He should know how to see the client side error messages displayed by various browsers. Reproducing the issue also need some kind of development knowledge.
Being familiar with SQL and handling databases will help to test back end part of the web application. It will help to load some prerequisite data also to save testing time.
Test data collection task can be done easily if the Testers know little bit programming.
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