SOFTWARE
TESTING AND its IMPORTANCE
What is software testing?
Software Testing is a process that consists of all test
life cycle activities like static and dynamic testing involved with planning,
preparation and analysis of software products in order to identify that the
software products meet client’s requirements and are usually fit for clients
use. Software Testing is performed to find software defects or failures in
advance.
In
other words,Software testing can also be defined as the process of validating
and verifying that a software program/application/product:
Fulfills the business and technical needs that guided its
design and development.
Functions as predicted; and
Can easily be applied along with the similar
characteristics.
As we all know that human beings commit mistakes in any process,
some of the mistakes do not show effect much on our daily life and can easily
be ignored.But,On the other hand a few errors are so severe which they cannot
be ignored that much easily as they can break the entire system or software.In
such type of situations you need to take care that such errors are caught well
in advance before implementing the system/software in production environment.
In the
today’s quickly developing world of the Internet,every client wishes to receive
products to be carried out and updated faster when compared with their
competitors. Client would like more for software releases having innovative
applications to be implemented within short period (as early as possible),
however they don’t like in order to perform with the defected software.Releasing
such software program along with so many bugs into it may impacts the user
experience which makes negative impact on quality impression of your company
brand. These people will certainly remember about the delivered poor quality
product, so there will always be Importance of testing which makes vital role
in SDLC.
For example:
A lot of software program are nowadays used in air
traffic control system. Assume we don’t test air traffic control softwareprogram and directly implement them in production environment, there will be extremely
much risk involved in this, most probably this kind of software will certainly
fail sometime due to the fact that has not been tested for all the scenarios in
which it need to function. If the particular air traffic software crashes it
might lead to very severe disaster.
