Software Quality Assurance Testing Guide Tips And Practices

The pressing need for testing a software to ensure its quality and consequent user acceptance has encouraged companies to explore the open source platforms. The reasons testers prefer the use of an open source platform vis-a-vis a licensed one are due to the former’s flexibility, ease of writing automated test scripts and cost advantage, amongst others. A licensed platform, on the other hand, usually confines the testers to the use of specific languages only. Amongst the many open source testing platforms, the advantages of Selenium clearly outweigh others as far as test automation of applications is concerned. This brings forth the importance of test automation to ensure the quality of software. It does so by enlarging the test coverage area and by carrying out repetitive testing. We have no doubts that test automation is better at identifying glitches in the shortest possible time. In doing so, it also ensures faster time to market, a better user response, an...

Customers expect that the software or application used by them must function seamlessly. This is in addition to their expectations that the applications must have top notch GUI and robust features. In many cases, these expectations fall short of being fulfilled as businesses are bent upon churning out more number of apps/software to keep up with the competition. The race to be amongst the best can often force businesses to cut corners. The focus, therefore, is to hit the market with more number of applications instead of testing them rigorously. Such an approach can lead to situations where glitch ridden apps play havoc with customer experience. To meet the challenges in application development, especially web applications from flooding the market, companies are forced to take a fresh look at software testing. And when it comes to testing, test automation scores over manual testing for considerations of speed, time, cost and quality. However, automated testing is not s...