Software testing – what kinds of testing?

"Software testing is a process of executing a program or application with the intent of finding the software bugs".
In other words it can also be called as a process of validating and verifying that a software program or application or product:
  • Meets the business and technical requirements that guided it’s design and development
  • Works as expected
  • Can be implemented with the same characteristic.

Why is it necessary ?
is necessary because we can make mistakes that could cause the company a lot of money or completely crash our software and affect other people using it. We need to check everything we make because things can always go wrong. Other important reasons we need software testing:

  1. It points out the flaws in the software that were made during the development phases.
  2. It ensures the customer’s reliability and their satisfaction with the program.
  3. It ensures the quality of the product delivered to the customers.
  4. Testing is required for an effective performance of software product.
  5. It ensures that the application will not fall into any failures because it can be very expensive in the future or in the later stages of the development.
  6. It’s required to stay in the business.

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