Software testing is the process of testing new software by using it prior to its release. This testing process is carried out in order to spot and locate any kind of existing problems or technical issues. This can be carried out by the execution of a code. This code can be a small component or a program. This process is also called dynamic testing. This kind of testing can be carried out using a testing tool automatically or it can be carried out by hand manually. Whether it is carried out automatically or manually, code execution is used.
Software testing also involves what is called “static testing”. This kind of testing is also called code walkthroughs. It is the inspection of any software that does not need code execution. People also call this genre of testing “walkthroughs & inspections”, it is clear by this naming that the term software testing is preferably used to referrer to any kind of testing process that includes the execution of a specific code for testing. Despite that, using both types of testing the static testing and the dynamic testing is a very vital part of any strategy for quality control.
Software testing for any software quality control that lies within the SDLC has to go through both kinds of testing, dynamic and static. This means that technical specs, test plans and business needs have to be subjected to ‘walkthroughs and inspections’ which is also known as static testing. Everyone knows that dynamic testing can run automatically without the inference of the human element. The same thing can be applied to static testing as it can also be automated to save a lot of time and effort. For instance, using a tool that is able to measure the code’s complexity for a specific program can be an example of an automatic static testing tool.
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Monday, October 15, 2012
Why software testing is vital part of entire software development life cycle (SDLC)?
Software testing is used by all of the top companies that designs and manufactures different software. Despite the fact that using software testing can lead to the delaying of the release of new software it is still used by the biggest companies. This is due to the fact that using it is a vital part in the common protocols that are used in software development. Not only that as testing new software has many other advantages that pushes the software developing companies to test their software even if it is going to delay or push back the release date of the newly designed piece of software.
Software testing would allow the companies and the developers to be sure that the software that they are releasing will work to its full efficiency. This is because when new software is tested, the developers are able to spot any kind of technical issues or errors in the design so they can fix it before being released to the public. This helps the companies make sure that the software will work as it should when it is released and used by the clients. It also helps the software manufacturers make sure that the software that they are releasing is able to pass and meet all of the regular quality standards and tests.
Software testing would also help the users of the software avert away from any kind of damage that can harm their computers due to any technical issues. Most organizations now depend on their computers in almost everything because technology and computers makes everything easier. This is why they have to make sure that no harm will be done to their systems by the usage of the software. This is due to the fact that serious harm can come to the company’s business if any damage is done to its computer network and system.
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Software testing would allow the companies and the developers to be sure that the software that they are releasing will work to its full efficiency. This is because when new software is tested, the developers are able to spot any kind of technical issues or errors in the design so they can fix it before being released to the public. This helps the companies make sure that the software will work as it should when it is released and used by the clients. It also helps the software manufacturers make sure that the software that they are releasing is able to pass and meet all of the regular quality standards and tests.
Software testing would also help the users of the software avert away from any kind of damage that can harm their computers due to any technical issues. Most organizations now depend on their computers in almost everything because technology and computers makes everything easier. This is why they have to make sure that no harm will be done to their systems by the usage of the software. This is due to the fact that serious harm can come to the company’s business if any damage is done to its computer network and system.
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Tuesday, July 10, 2012
Unit Testing
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Friday, June 1, 2012
Practical Security Infrastructure Testing
When building and deploying new security infrastructure, the moment eventually arrives where you have to connect your new system to the Internet. This is the moment of truth, where you expose your carefully crafted infrastructure to hackers, crackers, phishers and script kiddies who are always to exploit someone else’ mistakes.
Before you get to this point, you want to have tested the security of you deployment very carefully, and this often gets overlooked in project planning. Many a project has stalled because the business would not approve connecting an untested build to the Internet, and it was not possible to perform effective testing without having the infrastructure connected to the Internet. Consideration should be given to security testing as early as possible in the design phase of the project: who will do the testing, and what sort of access and connectivity will they need? How can that access and connectivity be provisioned without exposing the new deployment to the Internet at large?
TL Consulting (www.tlconsulting.com.au) recommends that the first phase of security testing be conducted in house, using static testing techniques to ensure that the design and configuration of the new infrastructure complies with the organisation’s security policy, and to establish a working baseline. This work can be started very early in the project, and should ideally be commenced before the detailed design is signed off and before equipment is purchased. Regular review phases will ensure that there is no unapproved “drift” from the baseline.
TL Consulting also recommends that the second phase of security infrastructure testing should be white box style internal testing, conducted from within the network where the new infrastructure resides. In this phase the testers should be given access to the systems either as trusted users, or as attackers who have already breached the defences. The goal in this phase is to uncover vulnerabilities that could be exploited, and to understand the extent of the damage that a successful attack could cause.
External testing should initially be mimicked using a harness to emulate access from the Internet. This type of harness can often be provisioned using a low-end router to provide connectivity for the testers to the “outside” of the infrastructure. Testing in this phase should include a mix of positive and negative testing, to ensure that traffic and transactions that should pass and succeed do so, and that all other traffic is blocked, and that appropriate logging is in place.
Formal penetration testing should always be performed by a third party. A third party is more likely to spot deficiencies that the people who have worked on building the infrastructure. If a third party is engaged to perform internal testing, that work should be completed and the results analysed – and any defects remediated – before external testing proceeds. Both internal and external testing should be re-executed on a regular basis, in line with the organisation’s security policy.
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Before you get to this point, you want to have tested the security of you deployment very carefully, and this often gets overlooked in project planning. Many a project has stalled because the business would not approve connecting an untested build to the Internet, and it was not possible to perform effective testing without having the infrastructure connected to the Internet. Consideration should be given to security testing as early as possible in the design phase of the project: who will do the testing, and what sort of access and connectivity will they need? How can that access and connectivity be provisioned without exposing the new deployment to the Internet at large?
TL Consulting (www.tlconsulting.com.au) recommends that the first phase of security testing be conducted in house, using static testing techniques to ensure that the design and configuration of the new infrastructure complies with the organisation’s security policy, and to establish a working baseline. This work can be started very early in the project, and should ideally be commenced before the detailed design is signed off and before equipment is purchased. Regular review phases will ensure that there is no unapproved “drift” from the baseline.
TL Consulting also recommends that the second phase of security infrastructure testing should be white box style internal testing, conducted from within the network where the new infrastructure resides. In this phase the testers should be given access to the systems either as trusted users, or as attackers who have already breached the defences. The goal in this phase is to uncover vulnerabilities that could be exploited, and to understand the extent of the damage that a successful attack could cause.
External testing should initially be mimicked using a harness to emulate access from the Internet. This type of harness can often be provisioned using a low-end router to provide connectivity for the testers to the “outside” of the infrastructure. Testing in this phase should include a mix of positive and negative testing, to ensure that traffic and transactions that should pass and succeed do so, and that all other traffic is blocked, and that appropriate logging is in place.
Formal penetration testing should always be performed by a third party. A third party is more likely to spot deficiencies that the people who have worked on building the infrastructure. If a third party is engaged to perform internal testing, that work should be completed and the results analysed – and any defects remediated – before external testing proceeds. Both internal and external testing should be re-executed on a regular basis, in line with the organisation’s security policy.
Learn more about Test Data Management.
How to Use Web Testing Scorecard
Web testing scorecards will concentrate mainly on the GUI (Graphic user interface), GUI is used by websites to enable the users to browse easily within the pages of website. The website’s GUI functionality has great impact on the amount of traffic generated by a website.
GUI is created to provide effective control to the users on computers. In this case, control means the flexibility with which the Graphical User Interface reacts to the commands of users. Developing the website’s GUI quality will be the first thing that a web test scorecard will attempt to achieve. Logically the goal will be to give users the required graphic interface functionality by making use of the most appropriate web technology that is available.
The homepage will get the initial attention naturally, while testing a design of the website. The questions that you may ask here are: how the homepage is found by a visitor? Is easy navigation with the pages of website is allowed by the homepage menus? Does the design of the homepage and building inspire more visitors? Being biased, owner of a website or developer will tend to provide desired answers but there is a good and more precise way of measuring the functionality of homepage and that is, to ask the users about their opinion.
A web testing will decide the efficiency of GUI by measuring the flexibility and speed with which users browse from the homepage to other pages of website and back and to link with important links. A good GUI pattern will often give obviously located navigation points in every page and graphic buttons that give graphic recognition, which informs searchers they are still within the domain of a website.
The creation of the site should give straight forward links to embedded pages within the website. A well planned GUI will not fall short of links that will make the searchers to come back to the homepage, otherwise, they will be clenched in the page and will not have any opportunity to come to other pages of the site. Every page should have links to other sections and pages, which is even better.
Interface speed is another web testing that is good for measuring the functionality of website. Users are believed to give only 10 seconds of waiting time to enter websites before going somewhere else. This means, website interface should be assembled with access speed of majority users. Searchers on internet usually use dial-up connections. So it has to be aligned by considering that speed.
GUI is created to provide effective control to the users on computers. In this case, control means the flexibility with which the Graphical User Interface reacts to the commands of users. Developing the website’s GUI quality will be the first thing that a web test scorecard will attempt to achieve. Logically the goal will be to give users the required graphic interface functionality by making use of the most appropriate web technology that is available.
The homepage will get the initial attention naturally, while testing a design of the website. The questions that you may ask here are: how the homepage is found by a visitor? Is easy navigation with the pages of website is allowed by the homepage menus? Does the design of the homepage and building inspire more visitors? Being biased, owner of a website or developer will tend to provide desired answers but there is a good and more precise way of measuring the functionality of homepage and that is, to ask the users about their opinion.
A web testing will decide the efficiency of GUI by measuring the flexibility and speed with which users browse from the homepage to other pages of website and back and to link with important links. A good GUI pattern will often give obviously located navigation points in every page and graphic buttons that give graphic recognition, which informs searchers they are still within the domain of a website.
The creation of the site should give straight forward links to embedded pages within the website. A well planned GUI will not fall short of links that will make the searchers to come back to the homepage, otherwise, they will be clenched in the page and will not have any opportunity to come to other pages of the site. Every page should have links to other sections and pages, which is even better.
Interface speed is another web testing that is good for measuring the functionality of website. Users are believed to give only 10 seconds of waiting time to enter websites before going somewhere else. This means, website interface should be assembled with access speed of majority users. Searchers on internet usually use dial-up connections. So it has to be aligned by considering that speed.
Thursday, May 31, 2012
Common Questions of Software Testing
1. What is quality assurance?
Questions and Answers of software involves the complete software development procedure, administering and enhancing the process, assuring that any standards and processes are followed, and making sure that standards and processes are followed, and making sure that issues are found and solved. It is correlated to prevention.
2. What is the Intention of testing?
Software testing is the procedure used to assist recognizing the security, quality, completeness and corrections of the computer software that is developed.
3. What is the distinctness between testing and QA?
Testing includes working of an application or a system under restricted conditions and assessing the results. It is aimed to detection. QA of software includes, ensuring that certain standards are followed properly, and also making sure that the problems are solved properly.
4. Explain the Life Cycle of Software Development
Aspects such as working design, documentation planning, coding, document preparation, functional design, retesting, requirement analysis, initial concept, integration, testing, phase-out, updates, maintenance and others are included in it.
5. What are STLC and SDLC and other phases of both?
SDLC includes coding, testing, release, design phase, requirement phase, maintenance. STLC includes report and defect, tracking of bug, test case review, test planning, system study, performing test care, writing scripts or test care.
6. Test bed, what is it?
Test bed is an accomplished environment composed for software testing. It includes particular hardware, operating system, product configuration to be under test, network topology, system software and many other applications. The test plan for a project has to be established from the test beds.
7. What is the meaning of Test Data?
Test data runs through a computer program for testing the software. It can be used to test the compatibility with efficient controls in the software.
8. Why there are bugs in software?
No communication or miscommunication about the information of what should be done by an application or not. Programmers can make the mistakes in some cases. There are also possibilities that the end user not comprehending the effects of changes, or may request them to redesign it anyway, effects of other projects, delaying the engineers, work completed already may be have to be done again. It is not very easy to prepare the software projects at best, they often need too much of guesswork. Mistakes are bound to happen when the crisis comes and deadlines are provided.
Learn more about Test Environment Management.
Questions and Answers of software involves the complete software development procedure, administering and enhancing the process, assuring that any standards and processes are followed, and making sure that standards and processes are followed, and making sure that issues are found and solved. It is correlated to prevention.
2. What is the Intention of testing?
Software testing is the procedure used to assist recognizing the security, quality, completeness and corrections of the computer software that is developed.
3. What is the distinctness between testing and QA?
Testing includes working of an application or a system under restricted conditions and assessing the results. It is aimed to detection. QA of software includes, ensuring that certain standards are followed properly, and also making sure that the problems are solved properly.
4. Explain the Life Cycle of Software Development
Aspects such as working design, documentation planning, coding, document preparation, functional design, retesting, requirement analysis, initial concept, integration, testing, phase-out, updates, maintenance and others are included in it.
5. What are STLC and SDLC and other phases of both?
SDLC includes coding, testing, release, design phase, requirement phase, maintenance. STLC includes report and defect, tracking of bug, test case review, test planning, system study, performing test care, writing scripts or test care.
6. Test bed, what is it?
Test bed is an accomplished environment composed for software testing. It includes particular hardware, operating system, product configuration to be under test, network topology, system software and many other applications. The test plan for a project has to be established from the test beds.
7. What is the meaning of Test Data?
Test data runs through a computer program for testing the software. It can be used to test the compatibility with efficient controls in the software.
8. Why there are bugs in software?
No communication or miscommunication about the information of what should be done by an application or not. Programmers can make the mistakes in some cases. There are also possibilities that the end user not comprehending the effects of changes, or may request them to redesign it anyway, effects of other projects, delaying the engineers, work completed already may be have to be done again. It is not very easy to prepare the software projects at best, they often need too much of guesswork. Mistakes are bound to happen when the crisis comes and deadlines are provided.
Learn more about Test Environment Management.
The Basics of Software Testing
The basics of software testing are the first piece of the ISEB Foundation examination and course study syllabus. ISEM suggest that students of Foundation spend 20% of their time of study on the basics of section of Fundamental course. The tile of the opening chapter is The Fundamentals of Software Testing in the official manual of ISEB software testing.
Determining the fundamentals of software testing is very important to accomplishing proficiency according to the professional standards of ISEB. But what, exactly are these basics and what do you need to understand to the examination of ISEB Foundation?
The necessity of testing: Peter Morgan, a freelancer testing practitioner and ISEB Accreditation and examination panel member says that, a needlessly high amount of IT systems are unsuccessful to fulfill expectations or fail to work, because of inadequate software testing before the release.
Software testing cannot assure against software issues, but it can reduce the dangers of faults developing when the software is working. It is important to take the causes and effect of IT systems failure, and important role played by testing in quality assurance into account, in order to understand the necessity of software testing.
The five most important learning requirements to be focused by The ISEB Foundation are:
1. The potential force of a failure of IT systems.
2. Effects and causes of software failure.
3. The necessity of software testing.
4. Fundamental terminology of industry.
Meaning of testing: It is a technique of recognizing mistakes in the product before the release, this consists faults in its execution and the software code, also any type of potential space between job of code and what it exactly does.
The examination of ISEB Software Testing foundation needs students to:
1. Understand the fundamental objectives of testing.
2. Know how these objectives implement in the context of using, supporting and creating software.
General principles of testing: The students in ISEB courses are introduced to 7 principles of software testing.
1. Testing can prove that complications exist, but they can’t show that the problems do not exist,
2. It covers a restricted category of sample conditions, and is not all inclusive.
3. When the problem is found sooner, the cost of fixing it will be less.
4. Imperfections are more likely to align around particular areas. These areas can be specifically aimed by testers.
5. A test set that run repeatedly will have abating effect.
6. The kind, pattern and concentration of testing will differ depending on the software tested.
7. A test that doesn’t show errors doesn’t prove that software is free of errors.
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Determining the fundamentals of software testing is very important to accomplishing proficiency according to the professional standards of ISEB. But what, exactly are these basics and what do you need to understand to the examination of ISEB Foundation?
The necessity of testing: Peter Morgan, a freelancer testing practitioner and ISEB Accreditation and examination panel member says that, a needlessly high amount of IT systems are unsuccessful to fulfill expectations or fail to work, because of inadequate software testing before the release.
Software testing cannot assure against software issues, but it can reduce the dangers of faults developing when the software is working. It is important to take the causes and effect of IT systems failure, and important role played by testing in quality assurance into account, in order to understand the necessity of software testing.
The five most important learning requirements to be focused by The ISEB Foundation are:
1. The potential force of a failure of IT systems.
2. Effects and causes of software failure.
3. The necessity of software testing.
4. Fundamental terminology of industry.
Meaning of testing: It is a technique of recognizing mistakes in the product before the release, this consists faults in its execution and the software code, also any type of potential space between job of code and what it exactly does.
The examination of ISEB Software Testing foundation needs students to:
1. Understand the fundamental objectives of testing.
2. Know how these objectives implement in the context of using, supporting and creating software.
General principles of testing: The students in ISEB courses are introduced to 7 principles of software testing.
1. Testing can prove that complications exist, but they can’t show that the problems do not exist,
2. It covers a restricted category of sample conditions, and is not all inclusive.
3. When the problem is found sooner, the cost of fixing it will be less.
4. Imperfections are more likely to align around particular areas. These areas can be specifically aimed by testers.
5. A test set that run repeatedly will have abating effect.
6. The kind, pattern and concentration of testing will differ depending on the software tested.
7. A test that doesn’t show errors doesn’t prove that software is free of errors.
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Wednesday, May 30, 2012
The Necessity of Outsourcing Your Software Testing
According to market research studies, 40% of undecided application break time is brought by failure of application or bugs, 20% by hardware and 40% by errors in application, disasters or environmental aspects. So, 80% of unexpected downtime can be eliminated by IT process improvements, complete training on operations and pre-arrangement testing. This is important, but it is not certainly the main activity of majority organizations that require it. Outsourcing the software testing process will help a company to focus on its other core activities while the software testing work is handled by the experts proficiently, making sure of quality results. The company will save time and money on the procedure that would be too annoying and pretty tiring if done internally.
Importance of Software testing: Software testing is an important step in any project of software development. Testers and developers should make sure that products that are newly developed match the performance and practical requirements and that those products are trustworthy to function constantly under each circumstance. The dangers of launching a product that is not accomplished fully are abundant now than before because of the change in demands and assumptions of the end consumers.
A consistent approach to quality, started early in the lifecycle of software, can reduce the cost of accomplishing and maintaining the software considerably. This largely minimizes the risk related with arranging low quality software.
The important improvements that come along with aligning software testing and accent the normally mentioned reasons are as follows:
1. Save money and time by recognizing defects sooner.
2. Reduce and avoid downtime of development
3. Give better customer service by developing a better application
4. Understand the requirements of users and satisfy them
5. Construct a desired modifications list and improvements for later version.
6. Recognize areas where developers and programmers require training.
7. Recognize areas where developers and programmers require training
Software testing process stages
1. Providers concentrate mainly on quality of product, which is determined through the below mentioned basic practices:
1. Find defects of software quality in documents.
2. Suggest on the noticed quality of software.
3. Prove and authorize the assumptions made in pattern and requirement features through strong demonstration.
4. Authorize that the products works according to the design.
5. Authorize that the requirements are applied properly.
Read more about Software testing at http://www.tlconsulting.com.au/
http://www.tlconsulting.com.au/testing-services
Importance of Software testing: Software testing is an important step in any project of software development. Testers and developers should make sure that products that are newly developed match the performance and practical requirements and that those products are trustworthy to function constantly under each circumstance. The dangers of launching a product that is not accomplished fully are abundant now than before because of the change in demands and assumptions of the end consumers.
A consistent approach to quality, started early in the lifecycle of software, can reduce the cost of accomplishing and maintaining the software considerably. This largely minimizes the risk related with arranging low quality software.
The important improvements that come along with aligning software testing and accent the normally mentioned reasons are as follows:
1. Save money and time by recognizing defects sooner.
2. Reduce and avoid downtime of development
3. Give better customer service by developing a better application
4. Understand the requirements of users and satisfy them
5. Construct a desired modifications list and improvements for later version.
6. Recognize areas where developers and programmers require training.
7. Recognize areas where developers and programmers require training
Software testing process stages
1. Providers concentrate mainly on quality of product, which is determined through the below mentioned basic practices:
1. Find defects of software quality in documents.
2. Suggest on the noticed quality of software.
3. Prove and authorize the assumptions made in pattern and requirement features through strong demonstration.
4. Authorize that the products works according to the design.
5. Authorize that the requirements are applied properly.
Read more about Software testing at http://www.tlconsulting.com.au/
http://www.tlconsulting.com.au/testing-services
How to Chose a Software Testing Company
A software tester is the main area to concentrate while determining a company for software testing. There are two most well-known certifications these days and they are ISTQB and ISEB. Try and make sure that the testers that you chose have these certifications at base level. Another important factor related to software testers is their level of experience. Lot of software testing companies claim that their testers have I.T experience of five years, that means they have these five years of experience anywhere in Information Technology field. While choosing the software testing company, you should ask them about the actual years of professional software testing experience.
Most companies that test software offer a large range of services related to software testing. You should be very cautious while hiring them, as most of them will promote their services but it is not necessary them all of them have the proficiency or skill to do that. There are various types of software testing service that should be offered by professional companies and two of them are as follows:
Functional Testing: Usual products related to software these days include huge amounts of important functionality and difficult features, functional testing becomes most important in development of any software when added to the most important time stresses to have the product launched. Manual functional testing methods of a software tester have been shown to be very efficient at actually deciding whether the functionality actually works or not. Flexible software testers can operate from their own test cases or utilize any already existing test cases. Good software testers effortlessly make use of ad-hoc methods while accomplishing any tests to increase the coverage of test. The main intention at the time of occupational testing is to focus any issues as soon as possible so it can be clarified by the developers. This can of course efficiently minimize the development costs to the company.
Creation of Test Case: This is a famous service that normally involves making elaborated test cases, these cases can be used not only project under test, but also because of their high quality can be used again on upcoming projects and shape a good quality asset of test documentation. Reputed testers will gather all the necessary information to generate the test cases, normally from design documentation, developer interview and other needs. When the information has been observed, software tester will make a cultured spreadsheet of excel which consists of version details, test cases, environment setup and result sheets. In each stage of development of test cases clients are involved in the form of a process of test case review.
Most companies that test software offer a large range of services related to software testing. You should be very cautious while hiring them, as most of them will promote their services but it is not necessary them all of them have the proficiency or skill to do that. There are various types of software testing service that should be offered by professional companies and two of them are as follows:
Functional Testing: Usual products related to software these days include huge amounts of important functionality and difficult features, functional testing becomes most important in development of any software when added to the most important time stresses to have the product launched. Manual functional testing methods of a software tester have been shown to be very efficient at actually deciding whether the functionality actually works or not. Flexible software testers can operate from their own test cases or utilize any already existing test cases. Good software testers effortlessly make use of ad-hoc methods while accomplishing any tests to increase the coverage of test. The main intention at the time of occupational testing is to focus any issues as soon as possible so it can be clarified by the developers. This can of course efficiently minimize the development costs to the company.
Creation of Test Case: This is a famous service that normally involves making elaborated test cases, these cases can be used not only project under test, but also because of their high quality can be used again on upcoming projects and shape a good quality asset of test documentation. Reputed testers will gather all the necessary information to generate the test cases, normally from design documentation, developer interview and other needs. When the information has been observed, software tester will make a cultured spreadsheet of excel which consists of version details, test cases, environment setup and result sheets. In each stage of development of test cases clients are involved in the form of a process of test case review.
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