This document provides an overview of software testing concepts and processes. It discusses the importance of testing in the software development lifecycle and defines key terms like errors, bugs, faults, and failures. It also describes different types of testing like unit testing, integration testing, system testing, and acceptance testing. Finally, it covers quality assurance and quality control processes and how bugs are managed throughout their lifecycle.
This document provides an overview of software testing concepts and definitions. It discusses key topics such as software quality, testing methods like static and dynamic testing, testing levels from unit to acceptance testing, and testing types including functional, non-functional, regression and security testing. The document is intended as an introduction to software testing principles and terminology.
The document provides an overview of software testing techniques and strategies. It discusses unit testing, integration testing, validation testing, system testing, and debugging. The key points covered include:
- Unit testing involves testing individual software modules or components in isolation from the rest of the system. This includes testing module interfaces, data structures, boundary conditions, and error handling paths.
- Integration testing combines software components into clusters or builds to test their interactions before full system integration. Approaches include top-down and bottom-up integration.
- Validation testing verifies that the software meets the intended requirements and customer expectations defined in validation criteria.
- System testing evaluates the fully integrated software system, including recovery, security, stress,
The document outlines topics related to quality control engineering and software testing. It discusses key concepts like the software development lifecycle (SDLC), common SDLC models, software quality control, verification and validation, software bugs, and qualifications for testers. It also covers the quality control lifecycle, test planning, requirements verification techniques, and test design techniques like equivalence partitioning and boundary value analysis.
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Software testing is the process of evaluation a software item to detect differences between given input and expected output. Also to assess the feature of A software item. Testing assesses the quality of the product. Software testing is a process that should be done during the development process. In other words software testing is a verification and validation process.
Software testing can also provide an objective, independent view of the software to allow the business to appreciate and understand the risks of software implementation. Test techniques include, but are not limited to the process of executing a program or application with the intent of finding software bugs (errors or other defects).
Software testing can be stated as the process of validating and verifying that a computer program/application/product:
• meets the requirements that guided its design and development,
• works as expected,
• can be implemented with the same characteristics,
• and satisfies the needs of stakeholders.
Software Development Process Cycle:-
PLAN (P): Device a plan. Define your objective and determine the strategy and supporting methods required to achieve that objective.
DO (D): Execute the plan. Create the conditions and perform the necessary training to execute the plan.
CHECK (C): Check the results. Check to determine whether work is progressing according to the plan and whether the results are obtained.
ACTION (A): Take the necessary and appropriate action if checkup reveals that the work is not being performed according to plan or not as anticipated.
Testing is the process of identifying bugs and ensuring software meets requirements. It involves executing programs under different conditions to check specification, functionality, and performance. The objectives of testing are to uncover errors, demonstrate requirements are met, and validate quality with minimal cost. Testing follows a life cycle including planning, design, execution, and reporting. Different methodologies like black box and white box testing are used at various levels from unit to system. The overall goal is to perform effective testing to deliver high quality software.
Software testing is an investigation conducted to provide stakeholders with information about the quality of the product or service under test. I hope this ppt will help u to learn about software testing.
This document provides an overview of software testing concepts and definitions. It discusses key topics such as software quality, testing methods like static and dynamic testing, testing levels from unit to acceptance testing, and testing types including functional, non-functional, regression and security testing. The document is intended as an introduction to software testing principles and terminology.
The document provides an overview of software testing techniques and strategies. It discusses unit testing, integration testing, validation testing, system testing, and debugging. The key points covered include:
- Unit testing involves testing individual software modules or components in isolation from the rest of the system. This includes testing module interfaces, data structures, boundary conditions, and error handling paths.
- Integration testing combines software components into clusters or builds to test their interactions before full system integration. Approaches include top-down and bottom-up integration.
- Validation testing verifies that the software meets the intended requirements and customer expectations defined in validation criteria.
- System testing evaluates the fully integrated software system, including recovery, security, stress,
The document outlines topics related to quality control engineering and software testing. It discusses key concepts like the software development lifecycle (SDLC), common SDLC models, software quality control, verification and validation, software bugs, and qualifications for testers. It also covers the quality control lifecycle, test planning, requirements verification techniques, and test design techniques like equivalence partitioning and boundary value analysis.
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Software testing is the process of evaluation a software item to detect differences between given input and expected output. Also to assess the feature of A software item. Testing assesses the quality of the product. Software testing is a process that should be done during the development process. In other words software testing is a verification and validation process.
Software testing can also provide an objective, independent view of the software to allow the business to appreciate and understand the risks of software implementation. Test techniques include, but are not limited to the process of executing a program or application with the intent of finding software bugs (errors or other defects).
Software testing can be stated as the process of validating and verifying that a computer program/application/product:
• meets the requirements that guided its design and development,
• works as expected,
• can be implemented with the same characteristics,
• and satisfies the needs of stakeholders.
Software Development Process Cycle:-
PLAN (P): Device a plan. Define your objective and determine the strategy and supporting methods required to achieve that objective.
DO (D): Execute the plan. Create the conditions and perform the necessary training to execute the plan.
CHECK (C): Check the results. Check to determine whether work is progressing according to the plan and whether the results are obtained.
ACTION (A): Take the necessary and appropriate action if checkup reveals that the work is not being performed according to plan or not as anticipated.
Testing is the process of identifying bugs and ensuring software meets requirements. It involves executing programs under different conditions to check specification, functionality, and performance. The objectives of testing are to uncover errors, demonstrate requirements are met, and validate quality with minimal cost. Testing follows a life cycle including planning, design, execution, and reporting. Different methodologies like black box and white box testing are used at various levels from unit to system. The overall goal is to perform effective testing to deliver high quality software.
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The document discusses software testing concepts like verification, validation, whitebox testing, and blackbox testing. Verification ensures the product satisfies specifications, while validation ensures it meets customer requirements. Whitebox testing uses internal knowledge to test code, while blackbox testing treats the system as a black box without internal knowledge. The document also covers different types of testing like unit, integration, and functional testing.
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1. The document discusses different types of software testing including manual testing, automation testing, black-box testing, white-box testing, grey-box testing, and different levels of testing like unit testing, integration testing, system testing, regression testing, and acceptance testing.
2. It provides details on when each type of testing is used and their objectives such as finding defects, ensuring quality, and meeting requirements.
3. The key types of testing covered include functional testing, which has sub-types like unit, integration, system, regression, and acceptance testing, and non-functional testing.
This document discusses software engineering and software testing. Software engineering is concerned with developing large software through applying engineering principles. The challenge is to produce high quality software within budget and schedule constraints. Software testing is the process of finding errors in software and involves both manual and automated testing. Different types of testing include unit, integration, system, and acceptance testing. The goal of testing is to uncover defects early and reduce costs.
Testing software is conducted to ensure the system meets user needs and requirements. The primary objectives of testing are to verify that the right system was built according to specifications and that it was built correctly. Testing helps instill user confidence, ensures functionality and performance, and identifies any issues where the system does not meet specifications. Different types of testing include unit, integration, system, and user acceptance testing, which are done at various stages of the software development life cycle.
The document provides an overview of manual software testing, including definitions, goals, and best practices. It discusses the importance of testing, what should be tested, quality principles, standards and certifications, the software development life cycle, and roles in the testing process. Testing is defined as evaluating a system to verify requirements or identify differences between expected and actual results. It aims to deliver high quality software by finding errors prior to release. Quality, defined as meeting customer requirements, is crucial and improved through principles like defect prevention. The document outlines the software development process and life cycle from requirement analysis through maintenance.
Software testing is an important phase of the software development process that evaluates the functionality and quality of a software application. It involves executing a program or system with the intent of finding errors. Some key points:
- Software testing is needed to identify defects, ensure customer satisfaction, and deliver high quality products with lower maintenance costs.
- It is important for different stakeholders like developers, testers, managers, and end users to work together throughout the testing process.
- There are various types of testing like unit testing, integration testing, system testing, and different methodologies like manual and automated testing. Proper documentation is also important.
- Testing helps improve the overall quality of software but can never prove that there
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This document discusses software metrics and measurement. It describes how measurement can be used throughout the software development process to assist with estimation, quality control, productivity assessment, and project control. It defines key terms like measures, metrics, and indicators and explains how they provide insight into the software process and product. The document also discusses using metrics to evaluate and improve the software process as well as track project status, risks, and quality. Finally, it covers different types of metrics like size-oriented, function-oriented, and quality metrics.
This document discusses software testing principles and concepts. It defines key terms like validation, verification, defects, failures, and metrics. It outlines 11 testing principles like testing being a creative task and test results needing meticulous inspection. The roles of testers are discussed in collaborating with other teams. Defect classes are defined at different stages and types of defects are provided. Quality factors, process maturity models, and defect prevention strategies are also summarized.
The document discusses various topics related to software testing including:
1. Software testing helps improve software quality by testing conformance to requirements and is important to uncover errors before delivery to customers.
2. Testing involves specialists at different stages from early development through delivery and includes unit testing of individual components, integration testing of combined components, and system testing of the full system.
3. Proper testing methods include black box testing of inputs/outputs, white box testing of code structures, and testing at different levels from units to full system as well as by independent third parties.
Testing is the process of validating and verifying software to ensure it meets specifications and functions as intended. There are different levels of testing including unit, integration, system, and acceptance testing. An important part of testing is having a test plan that outlines the test strategy, cases, and process to be followed. Testing helps find defects so the product can be improved.
Testing involves finding errors in a program. The goal is to assume a program contains errors and test to find as many as possible. Different testing techniques include white box testing by developers and black box testing by testers. Testing levels include unit, integration, system, and user acceptance testing. Developers and testers have different goals - developers want code to work while testers try to make code fail. Good development practices from a tester's view include doing own acceptance tests, fixing bugs, writing helpful error messages, and not artificially adding bugs. Good relationships between project managers, developers and testers help ensure quality.
White-box testing is a software testing technique that uses knowledge of the internal workings of a system to design test cases. It involves testing internal structures or workings of a program, such as code coverage. The document discusses different white-box testing techniques like statement coverage, decision coverage, condition coverage, and multiple condition coverage. It aims to execute every statement, decision path, condition, and combination of conditions in the code. White-box testing is more effective at finding defects earlier in the SDLC but also more expensive and difficult to implement than black-box testing.
Black box testing refers to testing software without knowledge of its internal implementation by focusing on inputs and outputs. There are several techniques including boundary value analysis, equivalence partitioning, state transition testing, and graph-based testing. Black box testing is useful for testing functionality, behavior, and non-functional aspects from the end user's perspective.
This document discusses different process models used in software development. It describes the key phases and characteristics of several common process models including waterfall, prototyping, V-model, incremental, iterative, spiral and agile development models. The waterfall model involves sequential phases from requirements to maintenance without iteration. Prototyping allows for user feedback earlier. The V-model adds verification and validation phases. Incremental and iterative models divide the work into smaller chunks to allow for iteration and user feedback throughout development.
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What is Software Testing
Why need Testing?
Software Testing Life Cycle
Types of Software Testing
Unit Testing
Integration Testing
System Testing
Interface Testing
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Acceptance Testing
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The document discusses software testing concepts including the importance of testing, the testing life cycle, types of testing, quality assurance and control, and bug reporting. It provides definitions and descriptions of key testing terms like errors, bugs, faults, failures, test plans, test cases, unit testing, integration testing, system testing, and regression testing. Testing roles like testers, QA leads, and test analysts are also outlined.
The document discusses software testing and quality assurance. It describes the importance of testing in the software development life cycle (SDLC) and outlines different types of testing like unit testing, integration testing, and system testing. It also defines key terms like bugs, faults, errors, and failures. Verification is described as confirming the software meets its specifications while validation confirms it meets user requirements. The quality of software is defined and a bug reporting lifecycle is presented.
The document discusses software testing concepts like verification, validation, whitebox testing, and blackbox testing. Verification ensures the product satisfies specifications, while validation ensures it meets customer requirements. Whitebox testing uses internal knowledge to test code, while blackbox testing treats the system as a black box without internal knowledge. The document also covers different types of testing like unit, integration, and functional testing.
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Examples of Integration Testing
Integration Testing Challenges & Best Practices
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1. The document discusses different types of software testing including manual testing, automation testing, black-box testing, white-box testing, grey-box testing, and different levels of testing like unit testing, integration testing, system testing, regression testing, and acceptance testing.
2. It provides details on when each type of testing is used and their objectives such as finding defects, ensuring quality, and meeting requirements.
3. The key types of testing covered include functional testing, which has sub-types like unit, integration, system, regression, and acceptance testing, and non-functional testing.
This document discusses software engineering and software testing. Software engineering is concerned with developing large software through applying engineering principles. The challenge is to produce high quality software within budget and schedule constraints. Software testing is the process of finding errors in software and involves both manual and automated testing. Different types of testing include unit, integration, system, and acceptance testing. The goal of testing is to uncover defects early and reduce costs.
Testing software is conducted to ensure the system meets user needs and requirements. The primary objectives of testing are to verify that the right system was built according to specifications and that it was built correctly. Testing helps instill user confidence, ensures functionality and performance, and identifies any issues where the system does not meet specifications. Different types of testing include unit, integration, system, and user acceptance testing, which are done at various stages of the software development life cycle.
The document provides an overview of manual software testing, including definitions, goals, and best practices. It discusses the importance of testing, what should be tested, quality principles, standards and certifications, the software development life cycle, and roles in the testing process. Testing is defined as evaluating a system to verify requirements or identify differences between expected and actual results. It aims to deliver high quality software by finding errors prior to release. Quality, defined as meeting customer requirements, is crucial and improved through principles like defect prevention. The document outlines the software development process and life cycle from requirement analysis through maintenance.
Software testing is an important phase of the software development process that evaluates the functionality and quality of a software application. It involves executing a program or system with the intent of finding errors. Some key points:
- Software testing is needed to identify defects, ensure customer satisfaction, and deliver high quality products with lower maintenance costs.
- It is important for different stakeholders like developers, testers, managers, and end users to work together throughout the testing process.
- There are various types of testing like unit testing, integration testing, system testing, and different methodologies like manual and automated testing. Proper documentation is also important.
- Testing helps improve the overall quality of software but can never prove that there
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This document discusses software metrics and measurement. It describes how measurement can be used throughout the software development process to assist with estimation, quality control, productivity assessment, and project control. It defines key terms like measures, metrics, and indicators and explains how they provide insight into the software process and product. The document also discusses using metrics to evaluate and improve the software process as well as track project status, risks, and quality. Finally, it covers different types of metrics like size-oriented, function-oriented, and quality metrics.
This document discusses software testing principles and concepts. It defines key terms like validation, verification, defects, failures, and metrics. It outlines 11 testing principles like testing being a creative task and test results needing meticulous inspection. The roles of testers are discussed in collaborating with other teams. Defect classes are defined at different stages and types of defects are provided. Quality factors, process maturity models, and defect prevention strategies are also summarized.
The document discusses various topics related to software testing including:
1. Software testing helps improve software quality by testing conformance to requirements and is important to uncover errors before delivery to customers.
2. Testing involves specialists at different stages from early development through delivery and includes unit testing of individual components, integration testing of combined components, and system testing of the full system.
3. Proper testing methods include black box testing of inputs/outputs, white box testing of code structures, and testing at different levels from units to full system as well as by independent third parties.
Testing is the process of validating and verifying software to ensure it meets specifications and functions as intended. There are different levels of testing including unit, integration, system, and acceptance testing. An important part of testing is having a test plan that outlines the test strategy, cases, and process to be followed. Testing helps find defects so the product can be improved.
Testing involves finding errors in a program. The goal is to assume a program contains errors and test to find as many as possible. Different testing techniques include white box testing by developers and black box testing by testers. Testing levels include unit, integration, system, and user acceptance testing. Developers and testers have different goals - developers want code to work while testers try to make code fail. Good development practices from a tester's view include doing own acceptance tests, fixing bugs, writing helpful error messages, and not artificially adding bugs. Good relationships between project managers, developers and testers help ensure quality.
White-box testing is a software testing technique that uses knowledge of the internal workings of a system to design test cases. It involves testing internal structures or workings of a program, such as code coverage. The document discusses different white-box testing techniques like statement coverage, decision coverage, condition coverage, and multiple condition coverage. It aims to execute every statement, decision path, condition, and combination of conditions in the code. White-box testing is more effective at finding defects earlier in the SDLC but also more expensive and difficult to implement than black-box testing.
Black box testing refers to testing software without knowledge of its internal implementation by focusing on inputs and outputs. There are several techniques including boundary value analysis, equivalence partitioning, state transition testing, and graph-based testing. Black box testing is useful for testing functionality, behavior, and non-functional aspects from the end user's perspective.
This document discusses different process models used in software development. It describes the key phases and characteristics of several common process models including waterfall, prototyping, V-model, incremental, iterative, spiral and agile development models. The waterfall model involves sequential phases from requirements to maintenance without iteration. Prototyping allows for user feedback earlier. The V-model adds verification and validation phases. Incremental and iterative models divide the work into smaller chunks to allow for iteration and user feedback throughout development.
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What is Software Testing
Why need Testing?
Software Testing Life Cycle
Types of Software Testing
Unit Testing
Integration Testing
System Testing
Interface Testing
Regression Testing
Acceptance Testing
Documentation Testing
Installation Testing
Performance Testing
Reliability Testing
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The document discusses software testing concepts including the importance of testing, the testing life cycle, types of testing, quality assurance and control, and bug reporting. It provides definitions and descriptions of key testing terms like errors, bugs, faults, failures, test plans, test cases, unit testing, integration testing, system testing, and regression testing. Testing roles like testers, QA leads, and test analysts are also outlined.
The document discusses software testing and quality assurance. It describes the importance of testing in the software development life cycle (SDLC) and outlines different types of testing like unit testing, integration testing, and system testing. It also defines key terms like bugs, faults, errors, and failures. Verification is described as confirming the software meets its specifications while validation confirms it meets user requirements. The quality of software is defined and a bug reporting lifecycle is presented.
A brief that includes the following:
- Software Testing
- Quality Assurance
- Quality Control
- Types of Testing
- Levels of Software Testing
- Types of Performance Testing
- API
- Verification & Validation
- Test Plan & Testing Strategy
- Agile & Waterfall
- Software Development Life Cycle
- Career Path
Testing is the process of evaluating a system or its component(s) with the intent to find whether it satisfies the specified requirements or not. In simple words, testing is executing a system in order to identify any gaps, errors, or missing requirements in contrary to the actual requirements.
The document provides an overview of software testing, including:
- The testing life cycle and types of testing such as unit, integration, system, and regression testing.
- Key terms like errors, bugs, faults, and failures.
- The roles of testers, test leads, and test managers.
- When testing occurs in the software development life cycle.
- Test planning, test cases, and test tools like JIRA, Confluence, and TestRail.
- Certifications available in testing and common job opportunities in the software industry.
This document provides a summary of key concepts in software development lifecycles (SDLC), testing, and related topics:
- It defines SDLC as the process that ensures good software is built and outlines common SDLC phases like planning, analysis, design, development, testing, deployment, and support.
- It also describes different SDLC models like waterfall, iterative, agile, and V-model approaches.
- Key aspects of software testing are defined like validation, verification, manual vs. automation testing, and common test types like unit, integration, system, and user acceptance testing.
- The roles of subject matter experts and types of testing portfolios are briefly covered.
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Testing is the process of executing software to find defects and verify requirements are met. It involves executing a program or modules to observe behavior and outcomes, and analyze failures to locate and fix faults. The main purposes of testing are to demonstrate quality and proper behavior, and to detect and fix defects. Testing strategies include starting with individual component tests and progressing to integrated system tests. Different techniques like black-box and white-box testing are used at various stages. Manual testing is time-consuming while automated testing is faster and more reliable. Testing continues until quality goals are met or resources run out. Debugging locates and removes defects found via testing.
This document provides an introduction to software testing. It defines software testing as a process used to identify correctness, completeness, and quality of computer software. The key points covered include: why software testing is important; who should be involved in testing; when testing should start and stop in the software development lifecycle; the differences between verification and validation; types of errors; types of testing including manual and automation; methods like black box and white box testing; levels of testing from unit to acceptance; and definitions of test plans and test cases.
This lecture is about the detail definition of software quality and quality assurance. Provide details about software tesing and its types. Clear the basic concepts of software quality and software testing.
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The process of executing and verifying whether the application or a program or system meets the customer requirements with the intent of finding errors.
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The document provides an introduction to software testing and test management. It discusses key concepts like quality, software testing definitions, why testing is important, who does testing, what needs to be tested, when testing is done, and testing standards. It also covers testing methodologies like black box and white box testing and different levels of testing like unit testing, integration testing, and system testing. The document is intended to give a basic overview of software testing and related topics.
The document provides an overview of software testing, including definitions of key terms, objectives and goals of testing, different testing methodologies and levels, and the typical phases of the software testing lifecycle. It describes error, bug, fault, and failure. It also outlines different types of testing like white box and black box testing and discusses unit, integration, and system testing. Finally, it emphasizes the importance of planning testing to be most effective and cost-efficient.
This document provides an overview of software testing. It discusses the objectives, goals, methodologies and phases of testing. Testing aims to identify correctness, completeness and quality of software. Various types of testing are covered, including white box and black box testing, as well as unit, integration and system testing. Testing levels like alpha, beta and acceptance testing are also summarized. The document concludes that effective testing requires investigation rather than just following procedures, and should focus testing efforts in the most effective areas.
This document outlines a seminar on software testing. It discusses the objectives of testing like uncovering errors and demonstrating that software matches requirements. Testing methodologies covered include white box and black box testing. The software testing lifecycle includes requirements study, test case design, test execution, test closure and analysis. Different levels of testing are also summarized like unit, integration and system testing. Various types of performance testing are defined. The conclusion emphasizes the importance of an organized testing policy and concentrating testing in the most effective areas.
The document discusses various topics related to software testing such as the testing life cycle, requirement traceability matrix, test planning, different types of testing, challenges in testing, test team approaches, and cost aspects. It emphasizes that testing is an important process to identify defects and improve quality but is often undervalued. A structured approach and clear policies are needed to make testing effective. Tracking metrics like defect trends and test team efficiency can help optimize the testing process.
Manual testing is the process of manually testing software for defects by playing the role of an end user and using all features of the application to ensure correct behavior, following a written test plan. The document discusses various concepts related to manual testing including software quality assurance, verification, validation, software life cycles, testing techniques like black box testing and white box testing, unit testing, alpha testing, beta testing, system testing, volume testing, stress testing, and security testing. It provides brief definitions and purposes of these concepts.
2. Agenda:-
• Introduction
• Importance of testing in SDLC
• Testing life cycle
• Test planning
• Types of testing
• Verification & Validation
• Quality Assurance & Control
• Bug reporting
3.
4. Software testing is a process used to identify the
correctness, completeness and quality of developed
computer software.
It is the process of executing a program /
application under positive and negative conditions
by manual or automated means. It checks for the :-
Specification
Functionality
Performance
Software Testing
5. Software Testing is important as it may cause
mission failure, impact on operational
performance and reliability if not done
properly.
Effective software testing delivers quality
software products satisfying user’s
requirements, needs and expectations.
Why Software Testing ?
8. Bug, Fault & Failure
Error : An error is a human action that produces the incorrect result that
results in a fault.
Bug : The presence of error at the time of execution of the software.
Fault : State of software caused by an error.
Failure : Deviation of the software from its expected result. It is an event.
A person makes an Error
That creates a fault in software
That can cause a failure in operation
9. Who is a Software
Tester??..
Software Tester is the one who performs testing and
find bugs, if they exist in the tested application.
10. The Testing Team
Program Manager-
• The planning and execution of the project to ensure the success
of a project minimizing risk throughout the lifetime of the project.
• Responsible for writing the product specification, managing the schedule
and making the critical decisions and trade-offs.
QA Lead-
• Coach and mentor other team members to help improve QA effectiveness
• Work with other department representatives to collaborate on
joint projects and initiatives
• Implement industry best practices related to testing automation and to
streamline the QA Department.
11. Test AnalystLead-
• Responsible for planning, developing and executing automated test
systems, manual test plans and regressions test plans.
• Identifying the Target Test Items to be evaluated by the test effort
• Defining the appropriate tests required and any associated Test
Data
• Gathering and managing the Test Data
• Evaluating the outcome of each test cycle
Test Engineer-
• Writing and executing test cases and Reporting defects
• Test engineers are also responsible for determining the best way a
test can be performed in order to achieve 100% test coverage of all
components
12.
13. When to Start Testing in
SDLC
• Requirement
• Analysis
• Design
• Coding
• Testing
• Implementation
• Maintenance
Testing starts from Requirement
Phase
14. Project Initiation
System Study
Summary Reports
Analysis
Regression Test
Report Defects
Execute Test Cases
( manual /automated )
Design Test Cases
Test Plan
Testing Life Cycle
15.
16. Test Plan
A test plan is a systematic approach to testing a
system i.e. software. The plan typically contains a
detailed understanding of what the eventual testing
workflow will be.
17. Test Case
A test case is a specific procedure of
testing a particular requirement.
It will include:
• Identification of specific
requirement tested
• Test case success/failure criteria
• Specific steps to execute test
• Test Data
18.
19. Unit Testing
1.1. Test each module individually.
2. Follows a white box testing (Logic of the program)
3. Done by Developers
20. Integration Testing
After completing the unit testing and
dependent modules development,
programmers connect the modules with
respect to HLD for Integration Testing
through below approaches.
21. System Testing
After completing Unit and Integration testing
through white box testing techniques development
team release an .exe build (all integrated module) to
perform black box testing.
• Usability Testing
• Functional Testing
• Performance Testing
• Security Testing
22. Usability Testing
During this test, testing team concentrates on the user friendliness of
build interface. It consists of following sub tests.
• User Interface Test: Ease of use (screens should be understandable
to operate by End User)
• Look & Feel :- attractive
• Speed in interface :- Less number of task to complete task
• Manual Support Test :- Context sensitiveness of user manual.
23. Functional
Testing• The process of checking the
behavior of the application.
• It is geared to functional
requirements of an application.
• To check the correctness of
outputs.
• Data validation and Integration
i.e. inputs are correct or not.
24. Performance Testing
• LOAD TESTING – Also Known as Scalability Testing. During this
test, test engineers execute application build under customer expected
configuration and load to estimate performance.
• STRESS TESTING – During this test, Test engineers estimates the
peak load. To find out the maximum number of users for execution of
out application user customer expected configuration to estimate peak
load.
PEAK LOAD > CUSTOMER LOAD (EXPECTED)
• DATA VOLUME TESING -- Testing team conducts this test to find
the maximum limit of data volume of your application.
25. Security Testing
Testing how well the system protects
against unauthorized internal or
external access, willful damage, etc,
may require sophisticated testing
techniques
26. Smoke testing is non-exhaustive
software testing, ascertaining that
the most crucial functions of a
program work, but not bothering
with finer details.
Smoke testing
27. Alpha Testing
1. The application is tested by the users who doesn’t know about
the application.
2. Done at developer’s site under controlled conditions
3. Under the supervision of the developers.
28. Acceptance Testing
A formal test conducted to determine whether or not a system
satisfies its acceptance criteria and to enable the customer to
determine whether or not to accept the system.
It is the final test action before deploying the software. The
goal of acceptance testing is to verify that the software is ready
and can be used by the end user to perform the functions for
which the software was built.
29. Beta Testing
1. This Testing is done before the final
release of the software to end-users.
2. Before the final release of the software
is released to users for testing where
there will be no controlled conditions
and the user here is free enough to do
what ever he wants to do on the system
to find errors.
30. Regression Testing
Testing with the intent of determining
if bug fixes have been successful and
have not created any new problems.
Also, this type of testing is done to
ensure that no degradation of baseline
functionality has occurred.
31. Monkey Testing
Testing the application randomly like hitting
keys irregularly and try to breakdown the
system there is no specific test cases and
scenarios for monkey testing.
32.
33. Verification
Verification is the process confirming
that -software meets its specification, done
through inspections and walkthroughs
Use – To identify defects in the product
early in the life cycle
34. Validation
Validation is the process confirming
that it meets the user’s requirements. It
is the actual testing.
Verification : Is the Product Right
Validation : Is it the Right Product
35.
36. Quality is defined as meeting the customer’s requirements and
according to the standards
The best measure of Quality is given by FURPS
Functionality
Usability
Reliability
Performance
Scalability
What is Quality ?
37. Quality is the important factor
affecting an organization’s long term
performance.
Quality improves productivity and
competitiveness in any organization.
Why Quality ?
38. Quality Assurance
Quality Assurance is a planned and
systematic set of activities necessary to
provide adequate confidence that
products and services will conform to
specified requirements and meets user
needs.
•It is process oriented.
•Defect prevention based.
•Throughout the Life Cycle.
•It’s a management process.
39. Quality Control
Quality control is the process
by which product quality is
compared with the applicable
standards and the action
taken when non
conformance is detected.
• It is product oriented
• Defect detection based
40. QA vs. QC• Quality Assurance makes sure
that we are doing the right things,
the right Way.
• QA focuses on building in quality
and hence preventing defects.
• QA deals with process.
• QA is for entire life cycle.
• QA is preventive process.
• Quality Control makes sure the
results of what we’ve done are
what we expected .
• QC focuses on testing for quality
and hence detecting defects.
• QC deals with product.
• QC is for testing part in SDLC.
• QC is corrective process.
41. Bug Life Cycle
New
Assigned
Tester finds the bug
and report it to Test Lead
Test Lead confirms
that it is a valid BugBug
Resolved
Re-open Verified
Closed
Deferred
Advantages of Usability Testing
Usability test can be modified to cover many other types of testing such as functional testing, system integration testing, unit testing, smoke testing etc. (with keeping the main objective of usability testing in mind) in order to make it sure that testing is done in all the possible directions.
Usability testing can be very economical if planned properly, yet highly effective and beneficial.
If proper resources (experienced and creative testers) are used, usability test can help in fixing all the problems that user may face even before the system is finally released to the user. This may result in better performance and a standard system.
Usability testing can help in uncovering potential bugs and potholes in the system which generally are not visible to developers and even escape the other type of testing.
Usability testing is a very wide area of testing and it needs fairly high level of understanding of this field along with creative mind. People involved in the usability testing are required to possess skills like patience, ability to listen to the suggestions, openness to welcome any idea, and the most important of them all is that they should have good observation skills to spot and fix the problems on fly.
Testing where user plays a role/user is required: User Acceptance Testing: In this type of testing, the software is handed over to the user in order to find out if the software meets the user expectations and works as it is expected to. Alpha Testing: In this type of testing, the users are invited at the development center where they use the application and the developers note every particular input or action carried out by the user. Any type of abnormal behavior of the system is noted and rectified by the developers. Beta Testing: In this type of testing, the software is distributed as a beta version to the users and users test the application at their sites. As the users explore the software, in case if any exception/defect occurs that is reported to the developers.