I have detected a trend: The test developer

I think in the near term more and more companies will be looking for test developers. A test developer is a mix between a tester and developer. Basically is a tester but able to create programs to test the application in an automated way. Before the automated testing was reserved to programmer for unit testing and integration testing, nowadays with the consolidation of selenium, cucumber, soap-ui, jmeter, you can test in an automated way the application end-to-end or close to it.

Technical words on fashion in 2011

Cloud, grid, grid services, java7, selenium, tdd, bdd, agile, automated testing, scala, functional languages, nosql, online apps, android, mobile applications, concurrent programming.