Article four in the “Quality Engineering for CEOs” series brings you an exploration of the role of software quality in organizational confidence.
Quality engineering and assurance efforts, and testing as a part of those, have never been more critical than they are today.
Software systems are becoming more complex and interconnected every day, and as a result, effective testing is more important than ever.
What if the first bug your users find shakes their trust? In a fast-moving release cycle, you only get one chance to make a solid impression, and poor quality can cost more than just rework.
Imagine a food delivery application with a feature for scheduling orders, but this functionality fails during peak user traffic. Executing performance testing with simulated peak traffic can prevent such failures and improve the user experience.
Volume testing is a type of software performance testing that evaluates a system’s capacity to process massive data volumes within a specific timeframe. It identifies bottlenecks, crashes, or inefficiencies under high data loads, ensuring performance, accuracy, and stability.
As software systems are updated and new bugs are created, previously functioning features may stop working as intended.
In the software testing process, quality assurance (QA) and quality control (QC) are closely related and complement each other to ensure product quality. QA prevents defects through process improvements, while QC ensures that bugs are detected and fixed in the final product.
Manual testing is a type of software testing that involves testers executing test cases step-by-step, observing results firsthand, without relying on scripts or automated tools.
Software’s nature is complex and disparate, and there isn’t a one-size-fits-all way of locating faults. Different testing levels are done to catch bugs and render a hassle-free user experience. Some of the most basic yet essential tests include unit and system tests, each one of them crucial to the creation of software.