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Software testers

Software testers

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Software testers

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- Software developers work on a pretty tight schedule. Most times, they only have a few weeks to develop their features and automate the unit test for them. There's additional testing that is required to ensure the features are delivered with the highest quality. To speed up the release of these features, software testers are often employed to work in parallel with the developers. Software testers are specialists who exercise well thought-out user scenarios in an effort to find software bugs, inconsistencies, or any other issues that may disrupt the user experience. You might be wondering why additional testing is needed when the developers have already thoroughly tested the units of the feature they've built. Well, it's not uncommon for individual components to work in isolation but fail when integrating them together. Let's consider two individual unit tests. Suppose that the unit test to request an upgrade works…

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