Software Testing Career

[sasmita]

Is it necessary for a tester to know programming knowledge or coding

[divya_be]

Is it necessary for a tester to know programming knowledge or coding

no its not necessary till you are doing black box testing...coding is compulsory for white box tester...

[Mayasen]

Even in black box testing, if you want to automate your testing then the knowledge in coding will be the added advantage. Without coding knowledge you can't even edit and customize the script for your requirement.

[gobikrishna.d]

Hi,

     * In black box testing not required any coding knowledge.

     * In White box testing coding knowledge is mandatory.

     Tester know the coding knowledge, he will do both testing. 

     

[Mayasen]

In BlackBox testing for automation you need coding knowledge; but not required for manual testing.

Am i right gobi..?

Hi,

     * In black box testing not required any coding knowledge.

     * In White box testing coding knowledge is mandatory.

     Tester know the coding knowledge, he will do both testing.  

      

[gobikrishna.d]

Hi Mayesan

            In the Black box testing u are doing in mannual testing, no coding knowledge required.

            If u are ur using automation tools, you will have know the coding knowledge. [base level coding knowledge require while using automation for black box testing.

            -Thanks.

[Mayasen]

Hi Gobi,

I think I too expressed the same.

[AndyZwer]

Nope, you don't need to know some programmic languages. But it will be plus for you to get some views about PHP, ASP.NET, Java, JavaScript and etc.

One of the main testers job is using software as future customer. Customers that buying software as ex. "player music" - he doesn't need to know some about C++, Compilers and etc.

[EDiva75]

<<Nope, you don't need to know some programmic languages. But it will be plus for you to get some views about PHP, ASP.NET, Java, JavaScript and etc. >>

Can someone define in their view how much of a knowledge is best to have as a software tester of XML, ASP.NET, Java, JavaScript, PHP, ect  PHP?  I have a bit of initial understanding of XML just recently which was helpful with doing testing about a month ago.  Luckily XML for me was similiar to HTML so that helped in my understanding of it and also keeping up with the tags that are needed.  Any feedback on people's experiences would be much appreciated!
 
 
 

[qafromsaintp]

If you want to develop your career you have to learn some programming language (at least) and several scripting language. This will help you definitely not only in white-box testing (which actually is performed by the developers mostly, not by QA engineers). but that will help you to automate, to analyze and to bring up your cost as the human resource

[Kapil.52]

I dont think so. But if you know the flow of operation of the s/w then, its an added advantage. (the place where I work does not provide even this knowledge)

[yogesh77]

For mannual testing and black box testing there is no need to look in the actual structre or code......but for white box testing tester must have the knowledge of code.....