Software Testing Strategies

What are the benefits of software testing?

• Cost-effective

This software testing's a significant advantage. It saves our money by testing software early in the long term. Furthermore, its cost is meager when we fix any bug early.

• Product quality

This is important for a software product that ensures that customers/users get a good quality product.

• Security

We know that people generally search for trustworthy software which secures and remove risks and problem earlier.

• Customer satisfaction

After all, customer satisfaction is our priority and is our main aim, and testing of UI/UX design is done to ensure a good user experience.

There are three types of software testing -

• Functional Testing
• Non-Functional Testing or Performance Testing
• Maintenance (Regression and Maintenance)

Note: we will not go through each of them in this blog but will focus on software testing strategies

Objectives of software testing

• Successful testing is finding a high number of errors and errors which were not being discovered. Furthermore, it checks if the software fulfills all the requirements or not. This means the test case was reasonable.
• The main objective is to find some good test cases that systematically see the different types of errors in less time and effort to complete development in less time.
• It also has the goal of minimizing the risk of the insufficient quality software product as during the development of software; there would be a significant number of uncertainties for sure and which have to be dealt with by integrating risk management in the development phase itself to save money, time and efforts.
• It helps build confidence in the quality of the product because products with high quality do not have many errors present. This means good testing quality leaves minimum errors and rectifies most of them in the end product, contributing to less maintenance cost.
   

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Strategies of software testing

• Identifying and specifying requirements in a quantifiable manner is necessary before testing.

For obtaining the clear testing result, we need to specify all the requirements to fulfill them with minimum errors moreover depends on the quality of the software, which means maintainability, usability which means how easily users can use the software without facing any error.

• The objective should be defined clearly and in detail.

All the objectives we discussed above should be explained and mentioned in the test plan.

• They are identifying the users and making their profiles.

To achieve the target, we use cases that help describe the interaction between different types of users, and the software sot the testing can be done properly by knowing the actual requirements f the users.

• The test plan should be developed to focus on rapid-cycle testing.

The changes that need to be required can be identified and estimated by rapid cycle testing to improve the software process and for the detailed and effective test plan.

• For testing itself, robust software is produced.

The software should be capable of identifying its different classes of errors. Moreover, software design should allow automated and regression testing for finding any adverse error or side effect in the software due to changes in the code.

• Effective formal reviews are used as a filter before testing.

Technical reviews are conducted to save the time of testing and overall software development. Here some undiscovered errors are identified, which reduced many testing efforts.

• For evaluating the nature, quality, or ability of the test strategy and test cases, formal technical reviews are conducted.

For improving the quality of the product, it is necessary to evaluate the testing process and the test cases used for testing. It also identifies any unfilled gap or discrepancy in the testing approach for improving the quality of the software.

• Develop an approach for continuous development for the testing process.

A pre-measured test strategy should be applied for software testing as part of a statistical process control method to assess and regulate quality throughout software development.

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Frequently Asked Questions

1. What is software?
   Software is a set of instructions that informs a computer how to operate. In contrast to hardware, this is the basis upon which the system is constructed and conducts the job.
    
2. Where do we write all requirements?
   The requirements are collected in the meeting of stakeholders and the development/designing team who make an SRS document where all the requirements from stakeholders get noted and signed for confirmation for starting the development.

Key Takeaways

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