If you prefer to take up job as a quality assurance engineer (or) software tester as it is variously called learning Xcode adds value to your profile What is xcode? Xcode is an IDE, Integrated Development Environment that consists of suite of tools developed by Apple for developing Apps for OS X , iOS. As a tester it becomes mandate to test mobile applications and most of these apps are developed in android (or) iOS. For testing such applications knowledge (or) hands-on experience with debugging tools like xcode comes handy How do I test android apps? Debugging tool Dalvik Debug Monitor Server aka DDMS comes handy while testing android apps Where do I find my next job if I know any of these debugging tools? This is mobile era and virtually any business has a mobile app that can be downloaded in iPhone (or) Android phone. As such all these apps need testers who assure their quality. Some popular companies like facebook, zynga, yelp,zillow and many online websites do value this skill while hiring qa professional