Testing Processes & Methodology

Testing Fundamentals

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 Testing Fundamentals

 What is Testing?

Why Testing is performed?

When do we initiate Testing activities?
 How do we perform Testing?

 Who accomplishes Testing?

 Testing principles
 Can Testing be done 100%?
 Myths for Testing
 Questions ???

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 Testing Fundamentals… Why?

Why Testing is performed?

 To build confidence in the software under test

 prove that the software is correct

demonstrate conformance to requirements

find faults
 reduce costs
 show system meets user needs
 assess the software quality
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Testing and Risk
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How much testing is enough

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 Testing Fundamentals… What?

What is Software Testing?

Per Computer Society ~ “Testing -- A verification
method that applies a controlled set of conditions
and stimuli for the purpose of finding errors. This
is the most desirable method of verifying the
functional and performance requirements. Test
results are documented proof that requirements
were met and can be repeated. The resulting data
can be reviewed by all concerned for confirmation
of capabilities.”
Testing software is operating the software under controlled
conditions, to (1) verify that it behaves “as specified”; (2)
to detect errors, and (3) to validate that what has been
specified is what the user actually wanted ~ thereby
producing quality

Contd…
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 Testing Fundamentals… What?

 Verification : Are we building the system right?

 Error Detection: Error detection is the ability to detect
errors caused by noise or other impairments.
 Validation : Are we building the right system?

Quality:
 Quality = customer satisfaction +delivered within time &
budget + conforms to requirements + less bugs + quality
attributes

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 Testing Fundamentals… When?

Quality Attributes:
 Completeness
 Conciseness
 Portability
 Consistency
 Maintainability
 Testability
 Usability
 Reliability
 Efficiency
 Security

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 Testing Fundamentals… How?

How do we …
Manual vs. automation

Manual Testing : Manual testing requires a tester to perform

manual test operations on the test software without the help of
Test automation.
Automation Testing : Test automation involves automating a
manual process already in place that uses a formalized testing
process

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 Testing Fundamentals… How?

Static Testing : Testing of a component or system at

specification or implementation level without execution of
that software, e.g. reviews or static code analysis.
Dynamic Testing : Testing to describe the testing of the
dynamic behavior of a Software. Validation of the Test
execution.
Different types of Testing in brief:
 Unit Testing
 Component Testing
 Integration Testing
 Regression Testing
 System Testing
 User Acceptance Testing
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 Testing Fundamentals… Who?

Who should do Testing:

Developers – Unit Testing
Qualified Testers – Manual and Automation Testing
End Users / Customer – UAT
SQA – Static Testing

Who should NOT do testing:

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 Testing Principles

Testing Principles:
 Testing must be done by third party.
 The probability of the existence of more errors in a module
or group of modules is directly proportional to the number
of errors already found.
 Should be planned before execution.
 Should conform/traceable to requirements.
 Pareto principle is applied ~ 80% problems are due to 20%
causes
 Testing ‘small’ to ‘large’ concept.
 Exhaustive testing is not possible.

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 Can Testing be done 100%?????

Can we do 100% testing ??????

No. Absolutely not.

Testing effort is just transferred to the customer.

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 Myths for Testing

Myths:
Some Questions which may arise are:

Can we Prove software is Correct?

What find faults exactly mean?
Do we can say that Build Confidence means no Faults?

One more controversy we come across is

the fewer faults we find, the better the quality of the
software?

finding few or no faults can mean one of three things:

good software, poor testing or both poor testing and poor
software.

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 Myths for Testing

Without knowing independently about the quality of the testing, no

justified conclusions can be drawn about the quality of the software.

“You cannot have justified confidence in the quality of the software

unless you have confidence in the quality of the testing.”

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Questions???

Questions???

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