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The IC career path for engineers does not stop at Partner SDET, but the test career path does . Partner SDET is one level below Distinguished Engineer (Corporate VP level IC). This is not because Microsoft does not see a need for a Distinguished Engineer(DE) in the test discipline . It is our belief that as engineers progress further and further along their career paths they start to look and behave more similarly to each other and the discipline distinction becomes less valuable . In a sense ,every IC from every one of the 10 engineering disciplines can progress to the point that they are back to being just another engineer . 合伙人SDET并不是一个工程师的职业发展轨道的最高点，却是测试职业发展轨道的最高点。合伙人SDET比杰出工程师（Distinguished Engineer）（相当于公司副总裁级别）要低一个级别。这并不是因为微软觉得在测试领域不需要杰出工程师，而是我们相信息随着工程师在职业道路上不断地前时发展，他们的行为表现变得越来越相似，不同学科的差异所带来的影响价值在减少。在某种意义上，每一个从事10个工程学科中的任何一个学科的工程师，随着他们技术领域的发展，都可以达到成为另外一个学科的工程师的水平。 Many well-known industry luminaries exist in the Microsoft tester ranks with successful blogs, frequent conference appearances , and books .James Whittaker , author of the How to Break Software reliability . Keith Stobie Writes the TestMuse blog on Spaces .live .com and is active in planning and supporting the Pacific Northwest Software Quality Conference(PNSQC) held annually in Portland , Oregon . The Test Verification and Metrics team headed by Tom Ball is a small team of researchers producing new and unique results around the use of data drive product quality improvements Every member of the team is recognized widely for their research on test metrics. 很多非常著名的工业界的杰出人物都是微软测试工程师中的一员。他们有很成功的个人日志，经常参加各种会议和书籍的写作。例如，James Whittaker是How to Break Software系列著作的作者。他在2005年加入微软成为可信赖计算组的一员，主攻软件可靠性的提高。Keith Stobie是S上TestMuse日志的作者，他是策划和支持一年一度在俄勒冈州波特兰市举办的太平洋西北地区软件质量会议（Pacific Northwest Software Quality Conference，PNSQC）的活跃分子。Tom Ball领导的测试验证和度量组是一个小型的研究人员梯队，他们通过在数据使用中产生新颖而独特的结果来推动产品质量的提高，组里的每一位成员都因为他们在测试度量上的研究而被广泛认可。 这些只是我们在微软投入用以发展和支持世界一流的测试专家的几个例子。 测试管理是SDET的另外一条主要的职业发展轨道。一个测试管理者可以在测试工程师梯队里向上发展，管理更大的团队和领域。当然，