Effective Software Testing
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Printed Date: 18Jul2025 at 6:13am
Topic: Effective Software Testing
Posted By: poli
Subject: Effective Software Testing
Date Posted: 27Aug2007 at 6:46am
What is Effective Software Testing?
The effectiveness of Testing can be measured if the goal and purpose of the testing effort is clearly defined. Some of the typical Testing goals are:
Testing in each phase of the Development cycle to ensure that the bugs(defects) are eliminated at the earliest.
Testing to ensure no bugs creep through in the final product
Testing to ensure the reliability of the software
Above all testing to ensure that the user expectations are met
The effectiveness of testing can be measured with the degree of success in achieving the above goals.
Steps to Effective Software Testing:
Several factors influence the effectiveness of Software Testing Effort, which ultimately determine the success of the Project.
Coverage:
The testing process and the test cases should cover
All the scenarios that can occur when using the software application
Each business requirement that was defined for the project
Specific levels of testing should cover every line of code written for the application.
Each Level of testing should provide adequate test coverage.
Unit testing should ensure each and every line of code is tested
Integration Testing should ensure the components can be integrated and all the interfaces of each component are working correctly
System Testing should cover all the paths/scenarios possible when using the system.
Test Planning and Process:
To ensure effective Testing Proper Test Planning is important. An Effective Testing Process will comprise of the following steps:
Test Strategy and Planning
Review Test Strategy to ensure its aligned with the Project Goals
Design/Write Test Cases
Review Test Cases to ensure proper Test Coverage
Execute Test Cases
Capture Test Results
Track Defects
Capture Relevant Metrics
Analyze
Having followed the above steps for various levels of testing the product is rolled.
It is not uncommon to see various bugs/Defects even after the product is released to production. An effective Testing Strategy and Process helps to minimize or eliminate these defects. The extent to which it eliminates these post-production defects (Design Defects/Coding Defects/etc) is a good measure of the effectiveness of the Testing Strategy and Process.
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