The Life Cycle Of Testing SoftwareIt requires a solid testing infrastructure and a thoughtful software testing life cycle that are both supported and valued by the corporate culture. Test
To begin, there is the automated testing system itself. The testing infrastructure includes a dedicated test lab, a good bug tracking system, standard test case format, and comprehensive test plans. The software testing life cycle defines when tasks associated with automation occur in relation to the overall software testing effort that is mostly manual. A company can make great strides using test automation. The important benefits include, higher test coverage levels, greater reliability, shorted test cycles, ability to do multi user testing at no extra cost, all resulting in increased levels of confidence in the software. The good news is that when automated testing is introduced each of these components does not need to be in place. Software The main aim of software testing is to check whether the software is error free or not before the final release. So customer satisfaction is only full fill by complete testing of the software before release and maintaining the delivery on time. We keep repeating the classic mistake that software developers have perpetuated since the first program was written we start testing (in the case of automated testing, writing the test scripts) without doing the proper analysis of the problem and design of the testing infrastructure. Automated One benefit of this predictability is the ability to begin building the automated testing system from the requirements early in the software testing life cycle. Having previously pointed out that an automated testing system is not an island unto itself, lets continue with the section which addresses the reason why automated software testing most often fails. There is even an attempt to describe an automated software testing life cycle in the most popular offering. Requirements Since customer are paying more money for their project so they want their project errorless, meeting their requirements and receiving their project on right schedule otherwise they caught financial trouble or loss. The ultimate goal of any automation effort should be a set of planned tests that corresponds to a set of test requirements that in turn are reflected in the automated tests. Understanding what to test (having a documented set of test requirements) and designing test data that verify the requirements are the keys to writing valuable automated functional tests. |