Quality Assurance Software Testing and its Significance
Software Quality Assurance Testing is an integral and critical phase of any software development project. Developers and testers must ensure that:
- Newly developed products or product enhancements meet functional and performance requirements
- The products are reliable and able to operate consistently under peak loads.
- The risks of releasing a product that is not yet ready are greater now than ever before because of the change in expectations and demands of the end users.
How is Software Testing Conducted
Software functional testing best practices include questions such as:
- How could this software break?
- In what possible situations could this software fail to work predictably?
- Many software testing strategies challenge the assumptions, risks, and uncertainty inherent in the work of other disciplines, and addresses those concerns using concrete demonstration and impartial evaluation.
Software testing focuses primarily on evaluating or assessing product quality, which is realized through the following core practices:
- Find and document defects in software quality
- Advise on the perceived software quality
- Validate and prove the assumptions made in design and requirement specifications through concrete demonstration
- Validate that the software product works as designed
- Validate that the requirements are implemented appropriately.
Different Levels of Quality Assurance Software Testing
Testing is applied to different types of targets, in different stages or levels of work effort. These levels are distinguished typically by those roles that are best skilled to design and conduct the tests, and where techniques are most appropriate for testing at each level. It's important to ensure a balance of focus is retained across these different work efforts.
Developer Testing
Developer testing denotes the aspects of test design and implementation most appropriate for the team of developers to undertake. In most cases, test execution initially occurs with the developer-testing group who designed and implemented the test, but it is a good practice for the developers to create their tests in such a way so as to make them available to independent testing groups for execution.
Independent Testing
Independent testing denotes the test design and implementation most appropriately performed by someone who is independent from the team of developers. In most cases, test execution initially occurs with the independent testing group that designed and implemented the test, but the independent testers should create their tests to make them available to the developer testing groups for execution.
The Other Levels Include:
- Independent Stakeholder Testing - testing that is based on the needs and concerns of various stakeholders
- Unit testing - Unit testing focuses on verifying the smallest testable elements of the software.
- Integration testing - to ensure that the components in the implementation model operate properly when combined to execute a use case.
- System Testing - Usually the target is the system's end- to-end functioning elements
- Acceptance Testing - to verify that the software is ready, and that it can be used by end users to perform those functions and tasks for which the software was built.
Why Outsource Software Testing to FFCSIT
- Not all organizations have the expertise or resources to carry out the software testing process.
- Software testing is essential, but it is definitely not the core activity of most organizations that require it.
- Outsourcing will enable a company to concentrate on it's core activities while software testing experts can handle the work efficiently, ensuring quality results.
- The company will save time and money on a process that would otherwise be too tedious and exhausting if performed in house.
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