How To Become A Leading Software Testing Company

How many software executives and managers envision armies (i.e. racks of computers) automatically running billions of tests over and over again and finding out all the issues in the software?

What an excellent idea - computer software that tests computer software! Executives eyes light up: "You mean we don't have to hire people to do it?

Think of all the money we'll save?" This is what the software testing consulting that sell the automated tools tell everybody - right? "Just shell out $200k for this nice automated tool - look at the pretty cost vs. payback PowerPoint graphs and keep in mind how much money this will save you!" - They insist. Besides they don't tell you one dirty little secret - it unusually works out for most organizations. The tools eventually end up sitting on a shelf in someone's cube.

• Why? - Because a tool alone doesn't solve the testing issues. You still need.• Initial and ongoing training (as employees leave the organization and new ones are hired).• Tools that are smart enough to deal with unexpected issues and results while testing (computer software is stupid).• Careful support for automation from management during software release cycles.• A development process that supports automated testing.

Acceptance Test: Testing the system of the software with the purpose of confirming efficiency and accurateness of the product and consumer acceptance.

Performance Test: This testing is performed when the product is completely developed. Its major objective is to recognize the performance of the software as per the customer guidelines.

Alpha Testing: Alpha Testing is performed after the code as opposed to checking most of its functionalities before an actual user starts using it.

Most of the time a select group of users is included in the testing. More often this testing will be performed in-house/small scale. Or by an outside testing firm in close cooperation with the software engineering department.

Automated Testing: It is one of the excellent techniques to increase performance, productivity, and accuracy of the software product.

It analyses the testing practice by reducing the human effort required. In this, we build automated test cases and perform those using automated tools. Automated testing tool repeats the predefined steps and results from more accuracy than the manual testing.

Functional Test: When the system is combined it is tested over its functionality. To test the function of the system I termed as functional testing.

System Test: System level is the upper level of unit testing. Whenever there is a big system and different programmers are coding over different units, they are joined and testing done over the combined system is system testing Integration Test.

Communication

A tester should be a good communicator also. This means that when needed, the testing engineer should be able to give the current status of the project with the customers, inform the team of any updates and provide informative reports for management.

Professional testing organizations pay attention to the communication skills of its testers so that they are able to share the insights of the project logically.

Planning and Resource Management

A plan is really a vision to execute the procedure before it is flagged off. A leading software testing consulting build a well-sorted approach for testing a software before the test engineers initiate the procedure of testing and QA.

This plan quickly explains the functionalities to be tested, along with the techniques and tools to be used for the procedure.

Once a plan is brought on the table, the team of testers works with the Dev. team to allocate the available resources and create a customized procedure for testing and quality assurance.

I work as a Senior Testing Specialist at TestingXperts. I handled day-to-day operations for all aspects of software testing. With over 7 yrs of professional experience I know how to build strong connection.