Which is more promising, front-end or software testing?

Testing and front-end, two completely different development directions, are indispensable and important parts in IT department. Let's start with the skill requirements and the nature of their work.

Software testing: the definition of software testing refers to manually or using tools to find bugs, defects and places that do not meet customer needs. Extended to performance testing and security testing. The purpose of performance testing is to test system stability and find system bottlenecks. Security testing refers to the problem of software system security. Software testing is divided into white-box testing and black-box testing. Black box is equivalent to functional testing, while white box focuses on software code and overall architecture testing. Proficient in various test tools such as jemeter, selenium, QTP and other automation tools, and familiar with python, java and other 1-2 development and scripting languages are necessary for a senior test leader.

Web front-end development: As a Web front-end developer, you need to be proficient in HTML, CSS, JS, local storage, websocket, familiar with mainstream frameworks, UI libraries, etc ... The most important thing is to meet the specification requirements. Good programming quality and logical analysis ability in all aspects.

Generally speaking, in terms of development prospects, the starting salary of front-end development is often higher than that of testing. Software testing is a management, and the manager is also an advanced test, so the salary can be improved very well.