This is a good question....firstly you must find out if you have a certain type of personality to accomplish software testing. 

You ought to be organized, logical and thorough. You are going to be writing test cases determined by business and functional requirements - in other words you should do.

Then you've to implement those tests - often repeatedly. Your primary goal should be to ensure that no software goes out to customer without all the bugs found. It's rarely achievable, but should be your ultimate goal. I always love to believe your 2nd goal must be to have every developer hate you because you keep finding bugs inside their code :)

The answer if software testing is an excellent career option depends upon who's asking the question. I'll answer it as if my audience is definitely an engineer.

I will be flip, but sincere - my working experience has proven to me that the principle of software development never happens in real life.

In theory, software testing is:

- Validating and recording that software program performs the functions it's designed to.

- Validating and recording it doesn't do just about anything it isn't designed to

This presupposes you've been told what it is supposed and not supposed to do. People you're working for don't always make it happen - they might not necessarily believe in you not to run away with their secrets.

Because software program is a business (except when you are doing work for the military) business guidelines apply a lot more strongly than engineering guidelines. Software testing is expensive, therefore the actions about objectives and how much to do are actually dependant on ROI considerations.

Inside the end-user relationship, the user's perception just isn't necessarily directly related to the physical world, in fact it is the user's perception of whether your system works that finally rules inside the minds of management, whose job is purely to be sure no one is complaining concerning the software.

Therefore, the truly practical concept of software testing might be summarized as 3 goals:

1° Verify the people that use software believes it's doing whatever they demand it to complete

2° Verify the software doesn't do anything immediately detectable that's not desirable for the user.

3° Verify that any undesirable activity has a sufficient length period that the software look to execute correctly long enough for you to make it to another round of VC financial commitment or sell the business :)

So you? Do You think Software Testing will be the right career path?

About the writer: J. J. Fleming is writing for the software testing course for beginners blog, her personal and non-commercial in nature hobby blog site to give free suggestions for software testing novices/specialists to enable them to find a new career.