7 Tips to Make Your Software Testing Procedures Bulletproof.

Software testing is an ever-evolving field that encompasses many different evaluation methods used to ensure that an application works as it originally intended, and also to ensure that such applications are viable in real-world scenarios. This process usually involves writing appropriate test cases, making sure that the right features and functions are covered, deciding which steps should be performed manually and which should be automated, filling out bug reports, and considering issues that arise during the customer experience.

Below are 7 tips to help any tester make their testing procedures bulletproof.

Tip 1: Make test cases available to the developers prior to coding

Test cases consist of inputs, execution conditions, procedures, and expected results that define a single test to be executed to achieve a specific software testing objective.

Picture 1: Test case example source.

It is important to always inform the developers about the test cases so that they can analyze and get a clear picture of the application being developed, otherwise, there may be discrepancies between the intended purpose of the application and the end result.

Tip 2: Create unit tests

One of the basic steps in testing software is to create unit tests, which are tasks created specifically to ensure that a particular component, be it a method or a class, works as expected and is tested over a set of valid and invalid inputs. This testing method can also be used in continuous integration environments (e.g., projects using AGILE), where unit tests should be run each time a change is committed to the source code repositories, as well as on the development engines used in the project.

Tip 3: Software functional testing should be left to the testers

It is the testers’ responsibility to make sure that every piece of software is tested or not. Testers should pay attention to all sorts of small details to ensure that the application does not break somewhere unexpected since programmers can overlook problems in their work as long as the code works. This is especially the case when the application’s requirements are misunderstood by developers, making it difficult to find the underlying problems in the application, no matter how well the code is written. Of course, this does not relieve developers of the responsibility to also thoroughly test the software during the development process. In fact, in small companies, it is common for developers to “put on the tester hat” and change their mindset to have a view like a tester.

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