1.5.1 Generic Skills Required for Testing

Question 1

Testing knowledge:
- To increase … (e.g. by using

Answer 1

• testing effectiveness,
  test techniques)

Question 2

List of relevant skills/traits:
- Thorough…
- care…
- cur…
- attention …
- being … (to identify…

Answer 2

• Thoroughness
• carefulness
• curiosity
• to details
• methodical
  defects, especially the ones that are difficult to find)

Question 3

More relevant skills:
- good com…
- active l…
- being a t…
- to interact effectively with all …
- to convey information to …
- to be u…
- to report …

Answer 3

• communication skills
• listening
• team player
  
  • stakeholders
  • others
  • understood
  • and discuss defects

Question 4

More skills (thinking):
- a…
- cri…
- cre…

Answer 4

• Analytical thinking
• critical thinking
• creativity (to increase testing effectiveness)

Question 5

Technical knowledge:
- to increase … (e.g. by using appropriate …

Answer 5

• testing efficiency,
  test tools)

Question 6

Domain knowledge:
- to be able … and to communicate…

Answer 6

• to understand
  with end users/business representatives

Question 7

Communicating test results may be perceived as c…

To improve this view, information about d…
should be comm…

Answer 7

criticism of the product and of its author.

defects and failures
communicated in a constructive way.