Testing

[MassacreAL]

hello ppl,
Im just reading book about software engineering, and there are guys called testers. i want to ask how these testers work. i know, you may think "they just run program and watch for bugs", but in this book is "they write programs for testing current project". does someone has idea how are these testing programs looking like or how are they working? do they control source code in some way or trying all possibly inputs?

[EXEcution]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Software_testing
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IEEE_829
This two articles do a pretty good job of explaining what program testers do. I didn't thouroughly read over it, but it looked pretty thourough.

Probably the terms relating to software testing are the alpha and beta stages. Testing implies testing ALL possible variables.

"No certification currently offered actually requires the applicant to demonstrate the ability to test software. No certification is based on a widely accepted body of knowledge. This has led some to declare that the testing field is not ready for certification."

That, above all, is probably what should concern you. Software testing is still being "tested", lets remember that computers are still young and do not have a strict set of procedures to follow and endure. Most people are under the assumption that the computer engineer knows what they are doing and certain applications and hardware are still full of bugs.

[MassacreAL]

tnx Exe, im sure it will help :thumbs: