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Datemill Developer School appeared in 2017. The educational project quickly gained popularity. Currently, most of all students, those who want to change careers, even mothers on maternity leave are studying at the School. The introduction of a new course on automated testing in the Datemill School of Developers program opens the way to IT for […]

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Courses

Our courses are for those who are just starting their journey and want to quickly grow into a professional developer, as well as for those who want to develop in development.

We have three areas of courses:

C#/.NET DEVELOPER

Software development course for beginners and junior developers. You will master the developer profession from scratch and add the knowledge of the popular C# programming language and the .NET platform to your arsenal at a level sufficient to start working in an IT company.

PHP DEVELOPER

In the course you will learn PHP syntax, learn to write and test object-oriented code, and work with databases. You will learn what tools and approaches are used to develop and deploy web applications in PHP, and gain experience using them.

TESTING

The only IT profession for which no experience or technical background is required. You can get the basic skills to work on quality assessment of a technological product in just one semester and start working in interesting IT projects in just four months.

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Developer Perspectives in Software Testing Automation

The developer's prospects in this field are hard to overestimate. Like bioinformatics, autotest development is at the intersection of the two disciplines, and programmer skills are increasingly at the forefront here.

Historically, experts with experience in manual software testing come to automation. At some point, they realize that routine operations can and should be automated, or they just want to try themselves in a new capacity. The experience that manual testers bring to an automation project can be archivally useful. No one knows the features and weaknesses of a product, the most labor-intensive scenarios for testing, the environment in which the product runs, and the wishes of users and plans for the next releases better than they do. As a rule, a good manual tester clearly understands what he/she wants to automate, but sometimes it is difficult to write autotests. Why? Because autotests are the same software product as the product they are meant to test. You need to think through the architecture of an Autotest system, the mechanisms of their launching (Continuous Integration, CI) and, most importantly, you need to write good code. In fact, it often turns out to be difficult for a manual tester. After all, they need to create a complete project, which can be integrated into CI, modified, expanded and reused. This requires programming abilities, accumulated experience, and a lot of experience.

A manual tester with a deep understanding of the product and testing techniques and a developer with programming experience complement each other perfectly. The first is strong in problem definition (use case -> test case), the second in its implementation. The question arises: why are there a lot of manual testers among automators? There are several reasons for this:

  • The path from manual testers to automators was clearer, and the code-writing requirements may have been more lenient.
  • For developers, the transition to automators is in some ways a pattern breaker: "Here I was developing a product, and now I'll be a tester who writes autotests - what kind of developer am I now?" In other words, there is a fear of losing qualifications and becoming a manual tester, as well as an unwillingness to delve deeply into the theory and practice of testing.
  • Expectation of less interesting tasks compared to the development of the product itself, and doubts about professional development.
  • Fear of losing career advancement and salary.

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