Software Testing and Quality Assurance

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Psychology Of Testing

Psychology Of Testing plays an important role in identifying potential defects in a product or project. Different perspectives judge the application in different directions. Usually the developers think that the code would work and the testers think the code would not work. Because of this pessimistic psychology, testers often test the application's behaviour in negative conditions thereby identifying more defects.

What is software Testing

By definition, "Software Testing is the process of executing an application with the intent of finding defects in it". But gradually, Software Testing has become broader than its original definition. Today's tester not only concentrates on finding defects but also often adds suggestions to bring out quality in the system. I personally feel Quality Engineer is a better term for a tester as he brings in lot of quality into the system by identifying areas of failure and improvement.

Database Testing

Database Testing has become a hugely discussed word in the software testing industry. It is gaining so much importance because every application, be it client server or multi tiered always consists of a database. Database Testers often need to know the SQL queries and Database architecture. Database testing broadly consists of two aspects:

1. Testing the implementation of business rules in programming.
2. Testing correctness of information in database objects like tables.

Importance of Unit Testing

Unit Testing has always been a neglected area in many software companies. But it carries a lot of importance as the cost of fixing the defect in Unit testing phase is always the least or negligible. Like any other levels of testing, it also focusses on both black box and White box testing techniques. Blackbox testing involves techniques like Boundary Value Analysis and Equivalence partitioning. And whitebox testing involves techniques like Loop coverage,path coverage,condition coverage and Error guessing etc. An improvized and structured unit testing can identify lot of defects in the early phase of SDLC and can save lot of revenue for the organization.

Why greater focus on Testing and Quality Assurance is needed in organizations?

Testing software systems to make sure they perform as expected and to ensure their reliability is a very critical quality control activity. Unfortunately this critical activity is being performed on almost every software project in a very ad hoc, informal manner by developers, testers, and users. The testing phase in many software projects mostly goes without planning and test teams often do not have the bandwidth to perform adequate testing. Hence a large number of defects do not get identified and they create greater customer dissatisfaction. Hence a greater focus on testing and quality assurance is needed.