Are testing skills and technical skills mutually exclusive?<\/p>\n
IMHO:<\/p>\n
1. let me start from: being technical does NOT mean being an automation engineer<\/p>\n
2. Technical skills would be: Understanding of how your product’s tech stack works, ability to understand the product’s control flow and code base.<\/p>\n
3. Having testing skills does not mean you cannot have technical skills or vice versa<\/p>\n
I think the problem stems from when we see technical skills and exploratory testing on two opposite sides<\/p>\n
To me they are both very related and compliment each other, one SHOULD fuel the other.. therefore:<\/p>\n
1. One cannot test a product very well UNLESS they understand the tech stack<\/p>\n
2. One cannot develop a great product UNLESS they understand looking at the product from different perspectives..<\/p>\n
This argument of testing vs development skills is not helping anyone – ALL ENGINEERS ON THE TEAM SHOULD KNOW BOTH<\/p>\n
Yes some would be better at on thing, and might play a bigger role there, but should have the capability of doing both.<\/p>\n
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