另一方面，软件测试人员的整个目标是观察这一产品并发现它的问题，从而改进它。
A software tester, on the other hand, their entire goal is to look at this product and find problems with it, to improve it.
目的是帮助软件测试工程师和管理者了解这些特征，以及如何在他们自己的团队中培养这些特征。
The objective is to help software test engineers and managers understand these characteristics and how to cultivate them in their own teams.
是什么使一个软件测试基础结构的维护成本的增长超出控制？
What can make the maintenance costs of a software test infrastructure grow out of control?
你的软件测试团队应该为未来作出同样的计划。
Your software test team should plan for its future in the same way.
但是我建议使用虚拟化软件测试iso，而不要实际将它们烧制到物理介质上。
But I'd recommend using virtualization software to test the ISO without actually burning them onto physical media.
你的任务是把他的能量集中到正确的方向上，让他(她)在软件测试中控制状态报告这方面的比例。
Your task is to focus all that energy in the correct direction and get him or her to keep the status reporting aspects of software testing in perspective.
下面是可以提高软件测试管理的一般建议。
The following are general recommendations that can improve software test management.
因为存在所有这些需求，所以很难找到好的软件测试人员。
Because of all these requirements, good software testers are hard to find.
谚语，“计划也是一个动词”对软件测试来说是千真万确的。
The saying, "Plan is also a verb" holds very true for software testing.
结果，您就可以增加效率和生产能力，同时创建一个更紧密集成的软件测试过程。
As a result, you can help increase efficiency and productivity, while creating a more tightly integrated software testing process, too.
该文件中报告的性能数据对于使用的产品软件、测试配置、工作负荷与操作环境来说都是特定的。
The performance data reported in this document are specific to the product software, test configuration, workload, and operating environment that were used.
正如你所见，大多数建议主要关注于好的项目管理而不是软件测试工程。
As you can see, most of this advice is more about good project management than software test engineering per se.
首先也是最重要的是：要记住，作为软件测试工程师，你创建的工具是通往一个终点的路。
First and foremost, remember that as software test engineers, the tools you build are means to an end.
面临着来自质量，复杂性和规模方面的挑战，公司需要优化它们的软件测试，以获得需要的业务结果。
With these challenges of quality, complexity, and size, companies need to optimize their software testing to achieve desired business outcomes.
点击搜索域并输入“软件测试”作为搜索文本。
Click in the search field and enter Software Testing as the search text.
如果我们假设做得越多，我们就会越少发现不可预知的事情——所有关于软件测试的。
The more assumptions we make, the less we're open to discovering the unexpected -- which is what software testing is all about.
然而，尽管取得了这些进步，软件测试的大多数仍然是手工进行的。
However, despite these advances, the majority of software testing is still done manually.
这涉及制定有效的软件测试计划。
在后一种情况下，软件测试团队必须从起草它的角色并与其他项目团队建立社会契约开始。
In the latter environment, the software test team has to start from scratch to define its role and establish those social contracts with other project teams.
从传统意义来看，软件测试与开发的其他部分是严格分开的。
Software testing has traditionally been kept highly separated from the rest of development.
我已经从事软件测试这个职业许多年了，但是不觉得厌倦。
I've been a software tester for many years now, but it never gets old for me.
他们提供的服务最终将会实现自动化，而这一现象正在发生，比如，软件测试。
Many of the services they now provide will eventually be automated; this is already starting to happen, for example, in software testing.
这对软件测试也一样。
许多（美国）企业都聘请海外公司进行软件测试。
但是在软件测试方面呢？
图3：从软件测试到业务驱动的质量管理。
Figure 3: From software testing to Business-Driven Quality management.
BindingCredential是有效的，使用其他LDAP客户机软件测试它们。
The Binding Credentials are valid, test them using some other LDAP client software.
软件测试必须与软件开发的其他部分结合起来，特别是像需求管理和变更管理这样的规程。
Software testing must be integrated with the other parts of software development, especially disciplines such as requirements management and change management.
软件测试应该是一个反复的过程，在整个项目周期的早期生成有价值的测试工件和工作。
Software testing should be an iterative process, one that produces valuable testing artifacts and results early on in the overall project lifecycle.
问题是，这些系统测试和软件测试图书的读者大多数都是测试人员，他们已经掌握了许多最佳实践。
That is, the typical readers of books on system testing or software testing are testers who already know many of the best practices.
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