Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning are about to take over the traditional testing jobs.
Many software pundits have declared doom and gloom. This is because of the dynamic nature of the SDLC, the changing requirements, the multitude of devices and various other factors. It is difficult to produce any application that is 100% perfect even after several layers and rounds of testing. That tested and released products are bug-free. Investing in the right people, processes in a tool goes a long way in making your product successful. Testing without planning and reducing testing budget at the cost of quality, results in buggy releases often causing much damage to the brand and products. Testing early and often can significantly reduce your overall development cost and allow you to release products on time, resulting in better time to market and improved ROI. The true cost of software failure goes much beyond financial losses. If you think quality is too expensive, try making a mistake. So, that testing occurs in parallel to development and this iterative/incremental approach can shorten the time to market. In recent years, the approach is to shift testing to the left of the development cycle. True, there are exit criteria defined for the cycle to reach completion. Software testing is above all a process and not an activity or phase that has a definite start and end point. Software testing is an end of cycle activity
There are several factors like usability, functional testing, unit testing, regression testing and so on and so forth. Performance testing is simply one part of the puzzle. It involves qualitative evaluation of factors like availability or the application or network’s resistance to denial of service(DoS) attacks.īut that’s not what testing is limited to. Stress testing which is only one part of the quality assurance mix, determines the ability of the program, application, device or network to perform under various loads or stress. “Testers don’t like to break things they like to dispel the illusion that things work.” Kaner, Bach, Pettichord 1.Testing is just about trying to break the code and find flaws. So, let’s bust some of these myths and find out what’s true and what’s just perception. Yet such sweeping statements, myths and stereotypes still continue to prevail. The role of testing and testers has evolved over the years. Neither is the gate-keeping approach to quality the right one. “A tester’s role is only to find bugs.” “Software testing is an expensive proposition.” Right? If you are in the Quality Assurance business or a software tester, you may have had your share of eye-rolls at the above-mentioned remarks.īecause believe it or not, software testing is no longer an end of cycle activity.
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