Tuesday 14 April 2015

Software Testing basics

Software Testing basics

To learn Software testing, you should understand the few basic concepts first.

Software:
Group of statements, set of logic and related data which instruct system to perform set of actions or operations.

Testing:
Verification and Validation to ensure to deliver a defect free application or product to customer.

Software testing:
Performing testing on software application or software product with respect to client requirements with the intent of finding the software bugs is called Software testing.
User/Tester can perform software testing in two different ways.

Manual testing:
Performing testing on software application or product with human interaction is called manual testing. Test cases are executed without any tool support.

Automation testing:
Performing testing on software application or product with the help of some tool is called automation testing. Tool support is taken to execute the test cases.
E.g. Test Complete, Selenium, RFT, QTP