#1 Tester Skill

To Be a Good Tester
 Build Tester Competency
 Technique skills
 Soft skills
 Characteristic
 Discipline and Perseverance
 Flexible
 Hyper-sensitivity to little things
 Open-minded
 Attitude
 Question everything
 You will not find all the bugs
 Be honest
 Don’t expect anybody to understand testing.

Tester Competency
 Technical skills
 Familiarity with software development life cycle,
processes
 Has functional / business knowledge
 Familiarity with testing process, creating test
documents and test execution
 Knows specific tools

 Some programming knowledge
 Soft skills (non-technical attributes)
 Reading skills: study many docs of specs, design
 Communication skills
 Both Verbal and Written communication
 Be able to communicate with technical and nontechnical
people, engineers, managers, customers.

Tester Competency(Soft skills)
 Documentation skills
 Be able to create documents with clear structure and
easy understanding
 Report the defects effectively for quickly reproduce
 Organized
 Time management

 Effort prioritization

Characteristic
 Discipline and Perseverance:
 Testing is repetitive and requests a lot of manual effort
 Have the ability to withstand pressures and workload
 Say ‘no’ to managers when quality is insufficient
 Flexible:
 Working style

 Communication
 Hyper-sensitivity to little things: Good testers
notice little things that others miss or ignore.
Testers see symptoms, not bugs
 Open-minded.

Attitude
• Question everything: Testing with out questions is
almost impossible. Questions help provoke your thoughts
• You will not find all the bugs: You need to find
significant bugs. You can’t find all of them
• Be honest: Testers are fundamentally honest and
incorruptible
• Don’t expect anybody to understand
testing: Clearly explain what is needed to do your job
effectively and do it repeatedly. It’s not that others don’t care

for testing they just can’t understand testing.