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What is software testing?

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Published on Sep 27, 2022

Software testing is the process of inspecting software to test its quality, functionality, and usability. Software testing is the practice of executing logical tests on software programs to identify defects and document how users are intended to interact with the program. These defects are called “bugs” because they are often small, sneaky things that disrupt user experience.

Testing is not only about finding bugs but also giving confidence that you have a good product before launching it in production. A lot of people think of software testing as something you do at the end once all features have been implemented. In fact, iterations of testing can take place at any stage in development; even before coding begins. Testing can be done for almost every piece of code that goes into an application or website. The earlier these tests are performed, the cheaper it will be to correct the issues found and implement new procedures that avoid those bugs in future releases.

Software Testing

Software Testing is a way to assess the software’s quality and reduce the risk of software failure in operation. If the software does not work correctly such software is called faulty software. Testing is done to reduce the risk and find defects.

There are two types of software testing,

Manual Testing
Automation Testing

Manual Testing

It means testing of an application manually (by humans) to find defects. Test Cases are executed manually without scripts and automation tools in manual testing. The tester verifies the actual behaviour of the software product with the expected behaviour, if any difference is found it is reported as a bug.

Types of Manual Testing

Black Box Testing
White Box Testing
Grey Box Testing
Unit Testing
Integration Testing
System Testing
Acceptance Testing

Manual Testing Procedures

Understanding the requirements
Write the test cases
Conduct the tests
Write Good bug reports
Report the results

Tools used for Manual Testing

Test Lodge
Zephyr
Trello
Jira
Basecamp
Sauce Labs
Browser Shots

Advantages:

Live Testing
Low cost
Less Programming
Adaptability to change

Disadvantages:

Time Consuming Process
High Possibility of errors

Automation Testing

The tester verifies the actual behaviour of the software with the expected behaviour using automation tools and scripts.

Types of Automation Testing Functional Testing

Unit Testing
Integration Testing
Smoke Testing

Non-Functional Testing

Performance Testing
Regression Testing
Key-driven Testing
Data-driven Testing

The automation testing contains the following procedures

Test Tool selection
Define the scope of automation
Planning, design and development
Test Execution
Maintenance

Tools to Automate Testing

Katalon Studio
Selenium
Appium
Test Complete
Cypress
Ranorex Studio
Perfecto
Lambda Test
Postman
SoapUI
Eggplant Functional

Advantages:

Increase speed of test execution
Improves accuracy of software test
Minimizing human interaction with testing
Saves time and money
Improves reliability of test

Disadvantages:

Starting cost of Automation is very high
Automation is never 100%

Difference between Manual Testing and Automation Testing

Manual Testing	Automation Testing
Done manually	Done using automation tools and scripts
Time-consuming, taking up human resources	Significantly faster than manual testing because it is executed by software tools.
Less Efficient	More efficient
Prone to human errors	No scope for human errors
Lower test coverage	High test coverage
Low test execution speed	Test execution speed is high
It is not accurate at all times	It is more reliable
The initial investment is low	The initial investment is high
Guarantee User-friendliness	Does not guarantee User-friendliness
Needs no programming effort	Requires programming

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