What is Software Testing?

• Software testing is a processes or way or investigation carried out to provide stakeholders with critical information about the standard and quality of the product or service or application under test.
• Software testing provides an independent view of the software or application under test and thus capacitates the business to follow and understand the risks of software implementation.

 

• Test techniques include the process of executing a program or application with the intent of finding software bugs (errors or other defects), and verifying that the software product is fit for use.
• It is necessarily a set of processes which aim at testing, investigating, evaluating and ascertaining the completeness and quality of computer software.
• Software testing ensures the compliance of a software product in relation with business, functional, technical and user requirements.
• Software testing is primarily composed of several interlinked processes to ascertain the validity of a product.
• The primary objective of software testing is to measure and ascertain product or software health and its completeness in terms of core requirements.
• Software testing involves using, examining, testing and checking software through different testing processes.
• The objectives of software testing processes include Verifying software completeness in regards to functional or business requirements.
• It involves Identifying technical bugs/errors in the product.
• Software testing ensures that software is error-free i.e is free of bugs , defect free.
• Software testing assesses usability, performance, security, localization, compatibility and installation of the AUT(application under test).
• Software testing is conducted to ensure that tested software passes each of the tests in-order to be considered complete or fit for use.
• Software testing is an activity to check whether the actual results match the expected results.
• Software testing involves execution of a software component or system component to evaluate one or more properties of interest.
• Software testing also helps to identify errors, gaps or missing requirements in contrary to the actual requirements.