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When looking for personel in general it is common that we want passionate people who love their work. Most passionate testers that I read about are usually part of the context-driven movement. Can there be testers out there that are really passionate about how they work in the heavy scripted test environment, where someone else does the thinking, writes the script and then hands it over for execution? What personal goals do you have when doing these tasks? Is your main focus in moving out of that zone so you also can do the thinking, write the test script and pass it on?
In the ET heavy environment I tend to see fewer roles and career paths, is this true? There are test leads, test managers and testers. Everyone want to test since that is their passion, no? You have fewer administrators and more doers.
In the scripted test environment I see more different roles and career paths. There are experts in certain domains, writing test cases. There are many test leads who spend their time trying to lead what is to be tested and exactly how. There are test managers allocating the very few testers in executing these tests. There are more administrators and less doers. A few times I’ve seen almost 90% administrators and 10% testers. With administrator I mean someone who has little focus on actually doing any tests themselves, and in some cases do not want to. One common management idea is that anyone can assist with executing a test script. This means that anyone can be a testers, thus you are not special in being a tester and you are easily replaced. There is no skill in being a tester since you just follow that script, no?
Are you then passionate about being a script tester?
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