Testing a Software by Gijo George
Software testing assumes a very important role in Software life cycle. Without proper testing software is incomplete. Testing should adhere to some general standards. To help a software tester, a test plan is prepared. This test plan broadly describes the approach towards testing particular... Another document that is generated for testing is the test plan is test case. ... Code review involves ensuring proper comments in place before a block of code begins. ... Code review has to be done by another programmer or a tester who have some knowledge about coding.

False Failures: Worse than Real Failures by Jason English
Better to fail for real than fail to really fail. Huh? We know you've experienced this. Let's say you just added some new functionality into your software, and you run a new build. And let's say that 50% of your test cases fail. What is the first thing you assume? ... Rather than using the test to validate the application, you are using the application to test the test case - which is a program you coded! ... Then you dig into the test scripts to try to figure out why the test case is no longer passing, and rework them until they pass.

Test Driven Software Development by Chetan Patel
Indian software outsourcing industry has grown to become world leader in Offshore Software Development. It has seen many different trends technology wise as well as ups and downs. Test driven Software Development also known as first test programming or first test development, is an approach that... Replacement for Traditional Testing: Although test design in Software Development is a programming technique, you also gain 100 percent unit-test coverage for the code if that’s done correctly and perfectly, which is important by product.

Software Testing: Part 1 by Prakash Chakkunny
The other day a friend asked me what a tester does. In other words what is software testing? What’s a bug? What are the key terms associated with testing? This is a humble attempt to address these questions and initiate the uninitiated to the world of testing. ... The test lead/ senior test Engineer develops Test cases which is basically a set of test inputs, execution conditions, and expected results developed for a particular objective, such as to exercise a particular program path or to verify compliance with a specific requirement.

Software Testing and Quality in Real World by Karthikeyan Pappaiyan
Why Sofware Testing? To reduce risk: Customer dissatisfaction Decrease of market share Higher service costs To verify To ensure that the system operates according to the requirements “Passive” testing; the positive attributes of the system are tested To validate To ensure that the... However, after testing, not much of your testing environment, test cases, test scripts, test results and logs are saved. ... Everyone involved in the delivery of the software, including business users, analysts, designers, programmers, testers, managers, executives, systems personnel and quality...

What Kinds Of Software Testing Should Be Considered by Jerry Ruban
Black box testing – This kind of Testing is not based on any knowledge of internal design or coding. These Tests are based on requirements and functionality. White box testing – This is based on knowledge of the internal logic of an application's code. ... Not always easily done unless the application has a well-designed architecture with tight code; may require developing test driver modules or test harnesses. ... Unit testing - the most 'micro' scale of testing; to test particular functions or code modules.

Advantages and Guidelines of Automated Testing by Vamseedhar Sane
"Automated Testing" is automating the manual testing process currently in use. This requires that a formalized "manual testing process", currently exists in the company or organization. Automation is the use of strategies, tools and artifacts that augment or reduce the need of manual or human... Minimally, such a process includes: Detailed test cases, including predictable "expected results", which have been developed from Business Functional Specifications and Design documentation A standalone Test Environment, including a Test Database that is restorable to a known constant, such that...

Is Software Tester a Most Infamous Person in a Software Project Team? by Syed Feroz Zainvi
The fact that a software tester is a most infamous person in a software project team has some grounds underneath it. This is because a software tester usually speaks of the bugs in the developer’s code. For a developer to take this pin-pointing personally hurting is humane. ... It is the duty of the tester to find bugs and by doing this he is, infact, suggesting you to remove bugs and thereby, dress your code in a proper way. ... At the same time, the tester should not directly blame the developer for the buggy code.

How To Read SMD Resistor Code by Jestine Yong
SMD stand for surface mount device and if you repair LCD monitors, you would come across lots of SMD components. CRT monitors rarely use SMD thus it is quite easy to find out the components value. In this article, I’m going to talks about SMD resistor code and how you could calculate the values. ... Sometimes the resistors are designed in a very small size until we have difficulty to read the code. ... But not all digital multimeter can perform this kind of test. ... This SMD resistor codes is different from the normal resistor color code (color bands) you had seen in the electronic...

5 Compelling Reasons Why Code Size Matters by Joshua Hayes
The size of your software solutions matters. As a developer, you should always be conscious of the effects that size and complexity have on development and what it translates into. In past articles (see end of article for links) I have looked at the early warning signs of design pattern abuse,... Smaller software is easier to test The smaller your software is (with respect to classes and functions) the easier it is to test; for the simple reason that there is less code that needs to be tested.