Software testing

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What is Software Testing? What is Software Testing? Testing is the procedure of analyzing a program or its component(s) with the purpose to ind whether it satisies the speciied requirements or not. In simple words, tests performing a program in order to recognize any holes, mistakes, or losing requirements in contrary to the actual requirements. According to ANSI/IEEE 1059 standard, testing can be described as – A procedure for examining a application package product to recognize the variations between current and required conditions (that is defects/errors/bugs) and to look at the features of the application product. Uses of Software Testing Software Testing enables making purpose tests regarding the degree of conformance of the program to stated requirements and requirements. Testing conirms that the program satisies the diferent requirements including, eicient, performance, stability, security, functionality and so on. This conirmation is done to make sure that we are developing the program right. In addition, testing validates that the program being developed is what the user needs. Essentially, approval is performed to make sure that we are developing the right program. Apart from helping make choices, the information from application testing helps with risk management. Importance of Software Testing As we all are humans and humans make mistakes in any procedure, some of the mistakes do not efect much on our life and can be ignored, however some mistakes are so serious that they can crack the whole program or software. In such type of circumstances you need to take good care that such mistakes are captured well ahead of time before implementing the system/software being made atmosphere.


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