Quality is a key factor of every successful software. But the question is, how can we measure the quality. There are multiple factors involved in the software QA. For instance, the software should be error-free, easy-to-use, adaptable, scalable and the list goes on. I would like to write about few things by which we can make our software error-free.
If the software is fully tested and following the standard test procedures, we can minimize the chances of errors in software. There are different Testing tools out there. Now in visual studio, you can create test projects, define the unit tests and execute them to verify if the functions are running without errors and returning expected results or not. The benefit of such unit tests saves a lot of time during regression testing.
Once the unit tests are passed, you can start integration tests. In fact, the software should be tested by the developers first. Then comes the QA phase where QA specialists can operate the software and perform different operational tests. The last step is UAT where the actual end-user performs the tests.
User Acceptance Test (UAT) is highly important before the software version goes into release state. Once, users are happy with the software, you can release the software into live state.
In case of websites or web applications, all the browsers should be considered while testing the site or thin-client applications. It's also important to do stress testing of the websites. Some sites or applications work fine when they are being tested by 10 or 20 users. But when the requests cross huge number of requests, the performance of website drops radically which may introduce the customers frustration.
In a nut-shell, QA should be considered as an important phase of software development and should not be overlooked at all.
If the software is fully tested and following the standard test procedures, we can minimize the chances of errors in software. There are different Testing tools out there. Now in visual studio, you can create test projects, define the unit tests and execute them to verify if the functions are running without errors and returning expected results or not. The benefit of such unit tests saves a lot of time during regression testing.
Once the unit tests are passed, you can start integration tests. In fact, the software should be tested by the developers first. Then comes the QA phase where QA specialists can operate the software and perform different operational tests. The last step is UAT where the actual end-user performs the tests.
User Acceptance Test (UAT) is highly important before the software version goes into release state. Once, users are happy with the software, you can release the software into live state.
In case of websites or web applications, all the browsers should be considered while testing the site or thin-client applications. It's also important to do stress testing of the websites. Some sites or applications work fine when they are being tested by 10 or 20 users. But when the requests cross huge number of requests, the performance of website drops radically which may introduce the customers frustration.
In a nut-shell, QA should be considered as an important phase of software development and should not be overlooked at all.
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