Objectives and Purpose of Software Testing
Software testing has
various objectives and goals. Some of the major objectives of software testing
are following:
- To find out the defects which may get created by developer while developing the software or application.
- Providing complete information about the quality of the software.
- Gaining confidence in the software developed by the team.
- Making sure that software developed meets the user and business requirement.
- To make sure that the software developed satisfies the Business Requirement Specification and System Requirement Specification documents.
Software testing help
in verification and validation of the software application or product for business
and user requirements. To verify that it is very important to have good test
coverage. Test coverage is necessary to test the software application
thoroughly and to make sure that software is developed according to the
specifications.
When determining test
coverage the test cases developed should be designed correctly with maximum
chances of finding defect, errors or bugs.
Once the software is
delivered to end user or customers, they should be able to run the software
without any problem. To make sure that customer should not have any difficulty
in using the software, tester should test the application according to the
client or customers.
A good coverage of
testing means that testing has been done to cover maximum areas like functionality
of application, compatibility of
software with the Operating System, hardware and various browsers, performance testing to test the
performance of the software in various conditions.
