What is the most popular programming language used by testers?

[Ronan Healy]

Based on your own experience or if you were to make a guess, what would you say is the most popular language for software testers?

Is it based on company or your own preference for what language you use?

[Andrei Domuta]

I would guess Java. My guess is based on the my friends’ testimonials
My personal preference is Ruby. Is the easiest language to learn, build with and debug which I had my hands on

Would be nice to hear some other opinions 🙂

[Shmuel Gershon]

At work, we use C#, Python and C.
We used Java, Perl and Ruby occasionally.

Side note: In this year’s EuroSTAR conference, we have a few programming presentations and tutorials. If we get more replies on the popular languages we can try to include examples from them, as many of the speakers have knowledge in a variety of languages!

[Jinxu]

I use C#, powershell, python, batch and vba

[Christina]

I don’t know about the most popular but I use selenium web driver with C# for web pages and Postman for OData API.

[Ronan Healy]

So it looks like C# is the most popular going my the responses here. Funny as you mentioned @andrei-domuta I thought too that Java would be the most popular but the more I read different testing blogs, the more I see Ruby being mentioned.

[Andrei Domuta]

@ronan
I was having a look over the Stack Overflow Dev survey and trying to find a link between the dev preferences for the programming language and the testing preference.
http://stackoverflow.com/research/developer-survey-2016#technology-most-popular-technologies

And BTW, do you think the testers should use the same language as the dev team? one positive outcome would be the know-how sharing + code review

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