IT Community Report 2021 on Testers and QAs in Poland

Work and technologies

What do you test

Multiple choice

Web

77%

API

54%

Mobile

39%

Desktop

33%

Other

15%

Security

9.0%

IoT / embedded

8.4%

Games

2.8%

AI / Machine Learning

1.9%

What do you do during your work

Multiple choice

Write and maintain case tests

82%

Create documentation

58%

Create reports

47%

Maintain testing and development environments

44%

Write the code

35%

Data analysis

34%

Write User Stories

27%

Collect requirements

24%

Integration/ deployment

22%

TDD / ATDD / BDD

22%

Monitor the production environment

21%

Coaching and consulting related to QA

19%

Unit testing

19%

Implement and implementations monitoring

18%

Customer service

13%

Sales support

3.4%

What documentation do you use during testing

Multiple choice

Tests reports

71%

Error reports

70%

Testing scripts

56%

High-level testing plan

38%

Dashboards

35%

Low-level testing plans

29%

What testing methods do you use

Multiple choice

Testing scenarios walkthrough

87%

Exploratory testing

84%

Testing based on test specification

66%

Ad Hoc tests

57%

Bug Hunting

37%

Log analysis and product telemetry

37%

User simulation

31%

Testing in pairs

13%

Testing on a limited group of recipients(beta testing)

13%

Mob testing

6.2%

How do you know what to test

Multiple choice

Own experience from previous projects

81%

User Stories

65%

Formal requirements

63%

Exploratory testing and heuristics

62%

Knowledge from brainstorming sessions / team meatings

58%

Other

13%

Application modeling

7.0%

Do you know any programming language

Yes

No

What programming languages do you know

Including scripting and markup languages; multiple choice

SQL

52%

Java

51%

Python

46%

HTML / CSS

40%

JavaScript

31%

C#

23%

Bash / Shell / PowerShell

17%

C++

14%

TypeScript

7.3%

C

6.8%

PHP

6.3%

Inny

3.7%

Kotlin

2.7%

Ruby

2.7%

Swift

2.4%

Assembly

1.3%

Go

1.1%

How did you learn programming

Myself (books, internet, free courses)

85%

Working on the project

54%

At the University

35%

Paid programming courses

23%

From friend/mentor

19%

Do you write scripts for automated testing

I create automated scripts

I don't create automated scripts

Where do you see yourself in few years

I will be a tester or a test manager

60%

I will be a developer or a team leader

14%

I don't know where I would like to be in few years

13%

I have other plans

3.9%

I will be a Project Manager

3.7%

I will be a consultant or a coach (still in industry)

2.7%

I will work in Business

1.8%

I will retire

1.2%

How many people work in testing team in your company

<10

83%

10-20

13%

21-50

3.1%

>50

1.0%

How would you rate cooperation with developers

1 - very bad, 7 - very good

33%

Percent

1

2

3

4

5

6

7

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Salary vs creating automated tests

Employment contract, civil contract and contract of commission - net, B2B -net on the invoice

I create automated tests

6 500

I don't create automated tests

4 726

I create automated tests

4 307

I don't create automated tests

3 998

I create automated tests

12 481

I don't create automated tests

8 725

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Testers and QAs Polish IT Community Report 2021

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Testers and QAs
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