Interview in Computer Science Profession

For my interview I interviewed Ms. Andrietta Clyburn who is a Software Tester at Itron, Inc. in West Union, SC. She said that in her profession there are a lot of documents written to communicate what individuals are working in within the group she works in. Some of the examples of the documents are as follows: Functional Specification – which tells what a piece of software or a component is supposed to do, Test Procedure and Results – which tell how the testing was performed and what happened from running the tests, and various other documents that keep others informed of what is going in throughout the software group that she works in. She said that most of these documents are written in some kind of outline form. She also went on to say that being able to communicate through email is very important.

She told me that for the actual content that goes into the various documents you will learn mostly on the job. She did say that it helps to be able to easily do a document in outline form, have good organization skills with your writing, practice maintaining a good flow with writings, practice being attentive and paying attention to little details, and learn how to minimize the length of a document but maintain its effectiveness.