My Contribution to the ‘Debate’

Before we go any further, let me make a few position statements derived from the Q&A of the SIGIST debate. By the way, when the SiGIST audience was asked, it appeared that more than half confirmed that they had programming skills/experience.

Business acceptance testers need to know something of the business that the system under test will support. A system tester needs to know something about systems, and systems thinking. Software testers ought to know something about software, shouldn’t they? Should a tester know how to write code? If they are looking at code figuring ways to test it, then probably. And if they need to write code of their own or they are in day to day contact with developers helping them to test their code then technical skills are required. But what a tester needs to know depends on the conversations they need to have with developers.

Thanks

 

More Details

3D Video Production