Hello monks, I really require some serious advice from you people.

I was actually working in Perl projects for the past 5 years. I have good exposure in perl now. By perl projects i mean, all are developed using Perl, mostly for my organization product, open source contribution, and internal requirements. Till these day all are for a requirement, and solution for it, which are from 1 week project to 6 month project.

Now am looking for a change in my career, and am getting good offers which are for 'automation testing projects' in Perl. Can i change my career to automation testing, or i should look for some other perl project development. ( my same field ).

Thing which am worried about is, if i go to automation testing for current offer, i dont think it is good in long run. So expecting your valuable suggestion on this that, will i get the same growth in both field ?! Or always development is better than automation testing in long run ?

In reply to moving to a testing automation project by Anonymous Monk

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