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Posted by Mayank Sapra
Mayank Sapra
4,555 Points

How to move from Software QA to development or SDET?

I am a Software Test engineer currently working for an eCommerce company in India. I am contemplating a transition into development from Quality Assurance, has anyone who has been a part of Teamtreehouse community succeeded in making this happen. If so what is the best possible way to achieve this and secondly which technology track would be most appropriate for a Software QA? Desperately looking for some genuine advise. Thanks in Advance Regards

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Sue Dough
Sue Dough
35,800 Points
Sue Dough
Sue Dough
35,800 Points

The tracks here won't help you much with QA/Testing. Treehouse will help you with programming which you will NEED to know to do software testing. It doesn't matter what language it is there is almost always a framework for "UNIT TESTING". This is what you should learn. If the current developers at your company are not writing unit tests for their code... well thats not good news and most companies don't write any unit tests which is why they have tons of engineers running around poking holes in a sinking ship. You will literally save them and they won't thank you to later ( once the test starting saving them from pushing bugs ). Unit tests are the best thing you can do for insuring your code works the way it does and also it helps you avoid technical debt later. Unit test allow you to do potentially hundreds of manual testing hours in a matter of seconds/minutes. You will also want to look into integration testing which you can do after all the unit tests pass and your about to ship to production. You may want to learn Selenium to run in browser tests.