SDET
SDET (Software Development Engineer in Test) in testing is an IT professional who can work equally and effectively in both development and testing roles. SDETs take part in complete software development process as well as software testing process. SDET professional’s knowledge is entirely focused on testability, robustness and performance of software testing and development process.
They are also able to play a contributory or reviewer role in the creation of designs for production software.
When do you need SDET?
Today organizations are looking for a professional who can take part in software development. At the same time, he should also handle testing of the developed software. That’s why hiring SDET helps them as they can work for developing high-performance code or designing the testing framework.
Benefits of SDET professional:
- SDETs professionals can automate the acceptance test by leveraging their coding skills
- These professionals deal with end users or customers and their experiences. They already possessed engineering skills so they can also think like a developer.
- Extensive code coverage through unit testing
- Can build, deploy, run & manage the application individually
- Influence the development, program management, & design teams on technical implementation and user scenarios
Difference between SDET and Tester
| SDET | Manual Tester |
|---|---|
| Knows the entire system start to end | Limited knowledge about the system |
| SDET is involved in every step of the software development process likeDesigning, development, and testing. | QA is only involved in the testing life cycle of the software development process. |
| Highly skilled professional with development as well as testing knowledge. | Software tester is only involved in preparing and executing the test cases |
| SDET can participate in test automation tool development and may make it for generic use. | Not expected to develop test automation tools or frameworks. |
| SDETs need to perform duties like performance testing, automated generation of test data, etc. | Only testing related task will be performed by the tester. |
| Know requirements and guidelines for the products | No such knowledge expected from QA professionals. |