在FreeWheel已经4个月了，工作开始上手，新的公司同事的素质都非常高，就我们Core来说吧，清华北大的占了一大半，第一次跟那么多非常聪明的人一起工作，有点兴奋，压力。公司发展的势头不错，我从进公司到现在，短短四个月，ad servering的流量应该翻了5倍吧。明年应该会增长的更加快，cool！

明年工作上主要还是集中在数据库相关技术，自动化回归测试框架，Python应该是主要的编程语言。

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1. 如果你工作没有激情，怎么能成为一个好的测试工程师呢？很多人可能抱着2种思想，1.我不如开发，混日子吧；2.找个机会转成开发。其实这都是没有工作激情的表现。
2. 技术，这就不用说啦，我挺同意作者的观点，要达到75%开发的技术能力，我觉得是综合能力吧，包括编码，架构知识等等
3. 聪明！
4. 会管理时间，并且把自己的事情安排好。
5. 强的适应性和快速学习的能力，其实做IT都要有这样的能力，知识更新的太快了
6. 工作要主动，不要老大踢一脚，才动一下
7. 沟通能力，老生常谈啦
8. 对业务的了解

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1. Passion for Analysis and Testing The key to success in any job is having a true passion for what you do. A great software tester will generally get more satisfaction from writing some test automation that exercises a software application than in writing the application itself. This characteristic is often associated with people who have college degrees in quantitative fields such as mathematics and economics, as well as in computer science. To a large extent, this passion for analysis seems to be an innate, rather than acquired, characteristic.
2. Technical Skill A great software tester must have significant coding skills in order to understand the system under test, communicate with developers, and write test automation. Most technical skills can be learned through education or experience. There is some disagreement among my colleagues about exactly what level of coding skill is needed to be a great tester, but I believe that a great tester must have at least 7.5-on-a-scale-of-1–10 (applications) development skills.
3. Raw Intellectual Ability A great software tester has to be smart, with strong analytical and logical ability. Software development is essentially an exercise in logic, and to operate at a high level in this environment a software tester simply has to be smart.
4. Ability to Prioritize and Organize Although necessary for almost any job, these talents are critically important for software testers. Software development and testing is a highly dynamic and fluid activity; the key variables can change weekly or even daily. The ability to recognize, interpret, and organize around these frequently changing job environment factors is essential.
5. Ability to Adapt and Learn In software engineering, new technologies appear with incredible speed. For example, the appearance of C# and the Microsoft .NET Framework in early 2003 completely revolutionized software application development. Great software testers must have an ingrained propensity to be ongoing learners and consistently spend part of every week dedicated to upgrading their skill sets. I performed some research a couple of years ago that suggested that a software engineer’s “skill set half-life” is about 18 months—meaning that without a significant upgrade in skills, a software engineer will be rendered substantially irrelevant in the job market very quickly.
6. Ability to Work without Direct Supervision This is another generic job skill but is a characteristic that is particularly important for software testers. The necessity for taking independent action—quickly recognizing a technical or business need related to the software testing effort, and the ability to know what steps to take without the need of managerial approval (and also the ability to know when not to forge ahead without a management OK) is an essential skill.
7. Ability to Communicate A great software tester must have strong written and verbal communication skills. A great tester must be able to read and analyze product documentation, write test plans, write clear bug reports, write coherent status reports to management (both formal reports and ad hoc e-mail reports), and have the ability to listen critically and speak rationally in person-to-person meetings.
8. Ability to Understand Business Strategy The characteristics of great software testers I’ve listed so far are primarily tactical in nature. The final skill on my list is the ability to see the larger picture of a company’s overall business strategy. This enables a great software tester to actively participate at a level higher than just an individual contributor—instead of merely finding and reporting a Priority 2 / Severity 2 bug, a great software tester can identify strategic strengths and weaknesses of a software system that can ultimately lead to a business competitive advantage.

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Every now and then I’ll hear people argue either that software testers absolutely must know how to code, or that software testers absolutely do not need to know how to code. I believe the true fact of the matter is that it totally depends upon the situation. At Microsoft for example, virtually all testers must have some knowledge of coding. Microsoft produces all kinds of software including complex systems software. Testers must know how to code so that can understand and effectively test the systems software they’re working on as well as understand, modify, and write test automation which is the only practical way to test certain aspects of some types of systems software. On the other extreme you have pure manual testers who are testing a relatively simple (compared to systems software that is) application program of some sort. Do these kind of testers need to know how to code? Well, it depends. However, I can state this with pretty much 100% confidence: the more any tester knows about coding, they better he’ll be able to do his job, and the more career opportunities he’ll have. But here’s an opinion I have that many of my colleagues (whose opinions I respect a lot) do not agree with. I believe that, in general, knowledge of specific programming languages is (in a way that I’ll explain in a moment) actually more important for software testers than it is for software developers. My logic is that it is critically important for software developers to understand algorithms and problem solving. Sure, the programming language used is extremely important so that any algorithm can be implemented accurately and efficiently, but the underlying algorithms are in most (but certainly not all) cases more important than the choice of programming language used. Software testing is primarily an analysis activity so in many (but not all) situations software testers need to be able to understand the algorithms used in the software system they’re testing, but not necessarily create very complex algorithms themselves. By sort of a weird default this means that knowledge of different programming language features is more important for testers, so that can quickly implement test automation (and test cases) that test the software system they’re working on as thoroughly as possible. Now I’m not saying that this algorithms vs. languages importance idea is a Boolean thing; I’m merely suggesting that all software testers can do their jobs better and expand their career opportunities by learning how to program better and by learning multiple programming languages.

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我和所有人一样，都曾经听过关于软件测试工程是否需要掌握编程技术的争论，一种说法是测试工程师必须要懂得编程，另一种说法却是相反。而我本人觉得这个问题的答案完全决定于当事人所处的环境。在微软，实际上所有的测试工程师都必须有编程的知识。微软生产多种类型的软件，其中包括一些较为复杂的软件，所以测试工程师必须知道如何编程，这样才能了解并且高效地进行测试；同时，对于系统软件的某些方面的测试只能通过编写自动化测试脚本来实现。现在再说一个极端的例子，如果组织里面全都是手工测试的工程师，他们对某种相对简单的应用程序进行测试，这样的测试工程师他们需要知道如何编程吗？答案是“it depends”。但是，我有100%信心指出，一个测试工程师对编程了解的更多，他们的工作会完成的更加出色，并且他们会有更好的职业发展机会。下面，我会陈述一个个人观点，这个观点不被太多的人所同意。我相信，一般而言，对于测试工程师，他们对特定编程语言的了解，甚至要多于开发工程师。我的逻辑是，对于开发工程师，他们最关心的是算法和解决问题的方法。当然啦，对于编程语言的驾驭也是非常重要的，如果不是就没法正确和高效地实现算法。但是，对于开发工程师来说，算法本身才是最重要的，而不是选择哪种语言去实现它。软件测试主要是一想分析的行为，所以在大多数情况下，测试工程师需要了解算法是如何实现的，但是他们的工作并不是创造一些复杂的算法，所以根据一个逻辑，这就意味着测试工程师对不同的编程语言的了解要比对算法的了解更加重要，只有具备这样的素质（对编程语言的了解），才能快速地实施自动化测试使得被测系统得到更加充分的测试。我并没有说要么算法重要，要么编程语言重要；我只不过建议所有的测试工程师都可以通过学习如何更好地编写程序和了解多种编程语言来更好地完成他们的本职工作以及更好地拓展他们的职业生涯。

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