Introduction to Testing

What is Testing?

Testing is the process of evaluating a product or a system to ensure it is defect free by satisfying the customer’s requirements.

Testing improves Quality.

What is Quality?

“QUALITY” is defined as justification of all the requirements of a customer in a product.

Note: Quality is not defined in the product. It is defined in the customer’s mind.

Software testing is basically of two types:

        ·         Manual Testing

        ·         Test Automation

Road Map for Manual Testing

   1)      SDLC Models

a)       Sequential Models

i)                    Waterfall Model

ii)                   V Model

b)      Iterative Models

i)                    Spiral Model

ii)                   Agile Models

   2)      Test Levels

a)      Unit Testing (Component / Module)

b)      Integration Testing

c)       System Testing

d)      Acceptance Testing

   3)      Test Types

a)      Functional Testing

b)      Non-Functional Testing

c)       Re and Regression Testing

d)      Structural Testing

   4)      Test Design Techniques

a)      Black box Test Design Techniques / Specification Based Techniques

i)                    Equalent Classes

ii)                   Boundary Value Analysis

iii)                 Decision Table Testing

iv)                 State Transition Testing

v)                  Use Case Testing

b)      White box Test Design Techniques/ Structural Based Techniques

i)                    Statement Testing

ii)                   Condition Testing / Multi Condition Testing

iii)                 Decision Testing

c)       Experience Based Techniques

i)                    Exploratory Testing

ii)                   Error Guessing

   5)      Software Test Process (STLC)

a)      Test Planning

b)      Test Design and Analysis

c)       Test Execution

d)      Test Closure

   6)      Test Artifacts

a)      Test Policy

b)      Test Strategy

c)       Test Plan

d)      Traceability matrix

e)      Test Scenarios

f)       Test case

g)      Defect Reports

h)      Test Summary Report

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