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by shinusanoj

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Hi, Curretly I work in the Medical field and would like to change my career to Software Testing. I like to take some courses in this, preferbly a 3-6mos course in a class room environment. I have some knowledge in MS-office.I live in Connecitcut and looking for courses in New England area. Can you suggest me any institutes that offers software testing courses.

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by ashij

Hi!
I think it's not that easy to get a SQA/STE certificate. There are certain qualifications/criterias that you need to satusfy. A popular certification is CSTE (Certified Software Tester), a vendor neutral certification. Please read to make sure that you meet the qualifications required before signing up for classes. From what I know, you need atleast 2 yrs. of experience in the IT field.

by jamesrl

Very few people I know start their IT career in software testing.

To be useful in software testing, you have to have some exposure to the software development lifecycle (SDLC). Software testing in an organized method requires a disciplined method of testing.

Its also good to know how people develop and code, because its those people that the tester will interact with.

Software test plans are based on software requirements - so knowing how requirements are written is also important.

So I would tell you that it would not be easy to take a course and land a testing job with no other IT exposure other than Office. Most of the testers in my company worked in support, became experts in the application, and moved to the QA team. Some have taken courses to expand their knowledge some have not. All of them were involved in some aspects of new release projects before they became testers. Some were coders.

STI has good information on their site on various aspects of the job
http://www.softwaretestinginstitute.com/

I've taken software testing courses from the Software Quality Engineering group (www.sqe.com) and directly from Rex Black http://www.rexblackconsulting.com/

I highly recommend Rex's books - not a bad way to find out more about the field.

James

by lianardo

Obviously this is way out-dated but?Wow!
My career as a software tester started when I couldn?t find a job in graphic design; I went to a temp agency and they called me with a 12 month assignment at EDS/Xerox. The ?course? consisted of a week of sitting down with the lead and going through the motions. It was black/glass box testing a GUI so any actual coding experience was unnecessary (except to know it was ?bad? when an error/exception message box popped up seconds before the entire application came crashing down).

If one is doing unit testing or automated testing (e.g. Rational SQA Robot was in vogue in 2000) then some knowledge of programming commands is necessary. However?many people who have the mindset of an application developer lack the personality traits of a skilled tester; people with backgrounds in law, psychology, communications, and sociology tend to have a better grasp of how things can come crashing down from a user?s perspective in the real world.

Since then I went on to test for several other systems and companies and finally (thankfully) got out of the field. Unfortunately I think if I?d had any classes I would have been more frustrated?real world testing involves more fighting and posturing than it does actual code-compliance as I?m sure a course would teach (just saying ?SEI-CMM? often yielded many blank stares in code review meetings and I once had a developer ?invite me? outside to discuss the ?discrepancies? I found in the application).

Still- I wish that courses were more available in a community college/university setting to make them more accessible by someone who truly wants to learn the craft from all sides; it would definitely offer testers the chance to earn the respect (and money) they deserve.

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