Summary
In this chapter, we provided a high-level survey of other testing disciplines that a software tester could specialize in. Frankly, each of these areas is deserving of their own chapters and conceivably entire books could be written on each (and have been). There are many areas in which software testers can branch out and explore their interests, even if it’s just to gain a little bit of familiarity with each. How far we go down each rabbit hole is entirely up to us.
In the next chapter, we will take a look at the various ancillary skills that a tester will need to know to be effective. This includes making bug reports, developing and defending test plans, writing and understanding test cases, making projections, and, yes, working with and understanding metrics as they relate to testing.