The China Computer Market Outlook Report was recently published in 2008. It showed that in the first three quarters of 2007, the Chinese software industry generated revenues of $50 billion, 23.6 percent more than PCP, representing 10.95 percent of revenue in the electronics and information industry as a whole. As the software market matures, people are increasingly waiting for the functionality, quality, and reliability of software. In October 2005, the Ministry of Labour and Social Security officially introduced the software product verification tool (software test engineer) as a new profession. In just two years, software testing has become a powerful black horse in the software industry.
Fixed state up
Most software projects are very simple and can handle the entire process of writing and developing code by one person. As competition in the industry intensified, software vendors gradually moved from small, single-man stores to joint software engineering operations. While the division of labor can improve the efficiency of software and functional development, it also leads to an increasing number of errors between units and degraded qualities,” said Wang Yazi of CONCEPT INFORMATION Technology Ltd. Deteriorating quality will not only affect the software company’s competitiveness but could also result in huge economic losses for software users or even personal injuries, such as medical accidents.
As software vendors in China continue to thrive, the importance of software testing has also been increasingly appreciated by software vendors. Many large and medium-sized software companies have begun to hire qualified professional staff to take over software testing. “At Super idea, the relationship between software tape developers is 1:4,” said Ran Chunjuan, a former test manager at Wuhan Subrida Technology Co., Ltd. Although it is still far behind international best practices at 1:1, this is still a significant improvement from 1:8 a few years ago.
Experience in this area has been appreciated
In addition to increasing the number of software tests, many companies also need high-quality employees, especially in the areas of experience and the ability to think about professional testing. Even if errors are detected, you may not be able to express problems in the appropriate languages, which can increase the workload of developers.
Seller’s Market
“The software testing industry is growing,” said Professor Cheng Renji, a software testing expert. The current hot market for software testing is mainly due to the rapid development of the software industry itself, “companies are demanding better software, which in turn stimulated the demand for software testing.” But talent show and talent training are delaying radical changes in market demand, hence the impending shortage. »
Currently, China’s talent shortage has exceeded 200,000 and reached the 300,000 thresholds. According to statistics, the total supply of software testing from computer training facilities across the country is less than 10,000 per year, so it can be predicted that the shortage of test talent could last another five to ten years. At the same time, the lack of talent has benefited from the salaries of testers.
Education and training
The lack of software testing in China has not only increased wage levels but has also created a boom for educational and training institutions. Just two years ago, several leading computer science professional training institutions recognized the importance of software testing functions, organized a small number of national and international software testing experts to participate in the development of training courses, which have successfully cultivated many software testing talents over the past two years.
