A tempting and proven fact: if you start working as a tester today, then in 5 years you can safely call yourself a representative of the middle class, even by European standards.

This is confirmed by the average salary of testers :

● beginners — $1200;

● professionals with more than 5 years of experience — $2500-3500

The profession of a software tester also has disadvantages:

1. Part of the work is routine and monotonous actions. However, this applies to any intellectual work.

2. Programmers earn more.

3. If you are interested in foreign projects, you will have to learn English.

1. Clear and informative

A tester who came from another project or from another company must understand what and how to

check. Ideally, he does not have to look for additional information: everything is in the tests.

2. Uniform for any project: has a common structure within one company

When the structure and content of checks do not differ much from project to project, the tester spends

less time on parsing and onboarding. He understands in advance which steps are already covered by

tests and what needs to be added to fully test the feature.

3. Covers the required percentage of features

To provide a certain percentage of feature coverage, you need to:

• know how to calculate this percentage,
• understand how to quantify what was covered.
• With chaotic writing of checks, this is resource-intensive and difficult.

There is a lot of fundamental testing base: there is information about what checks are and what they

are, when it is better to use checklists, when test cases, and when both types cannot be dispensed with.

But all this does not answer the question: how to write correctly in order to get the most out of checks?

The new approach helped us solve problems with project management both by different people and

teamwork in one project. We were able to speed up the review of checks, make updating checks and

onboarding into the project more convenient and understandable. Provided transparency in work and

confidence in the quality of the application.

Benefit of own structure of checks

A very important testing tool is test cases and checklists (hereinafter referred to as checks) that cover

the application. Without them, it is impossible to maintain the quality at the required level.