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4 Software Testing Terminology Methodology

The document discusses key concepts in software testing including the difference between errors, faults, and failures. It explains the life cycle of a bug and how bugs affect the economics of software testing. Different testing principles, the software testing life cycle (STLC), and methodologies are described. The STLC models include test planning, design, execution, and review. Verification ensures the product is built right while validation ensures it is the right product.

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4 Software Testing Terminology Methodology

The document discusses key concepts in software testing including the difference between errors, faults, and failures. It explains the life cycle of a bug and how bugs affect the economics of software testing. Different testing principles, the software testing life cycle (STLC), and methodologies are described. The STLC models include test planning, design, execution, and review. Verification ensures the product is built right while validation ensures it is the right product.

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Software Testing Terminology

and Methodology

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Objectives

• Difference between error, fault and failure.


• Life Cycle of a bug.
• How does a bug affect economics of software testing?
• How does a bug classified?
• Testing Principles
• Software Testing Life Cycle (STLC) and its models.
• Difference between verification and validation.
• Development of software testing methodology

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Software Testing Terminology

• Failure
The inability of a system or component to perform a required
function according to its specification.

• Fault / Defect / Bug


Fault is a condition that in actual causes a system to produce
failure. It can be said that failures are manifestation of bugs.

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Software Testing Terminology

Error
Whenever a member of development team makes any mistake in
any phase of SDLC, errors are produced. It might be a typographical
error, a misleading of a specification, a misunderstanding of what a
subroutine does and so on. Thus, error is a very general term used
for human mistakes.

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Software Testing Terminology

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Software Testing Terminology

• Testware
The documents created during the testing activities are known as
Testware.

• Incident
the symptom(s) associated with a failure that alerts the user to the
occurrence of a failure.

• Test Oracle
to judge the success or failure of a test,

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Life Cycle of a Bug

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States of a Bug

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Bug affects Economics of Software Testing
Software Testing Myths

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Bug Classification based on Criticality

• Critical Bugs
the worst effect on the functioning of software such that it stops or
hangs the normal functioning of the software.

• Major Bug
This type of bug does not stop the functioning of the software but
it causes a functionality to fail to meet its requirements as
expected.

• Medium Bugs
Medium bugs are less critical in nature as compared to critical and
major bugs.
Minor Bugs

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Software Testing Life Cycle (STLC)

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Test Planning

• Defining the Test Strategy


• Estimate of the number of test cases, their duration and cost.
• Plan the resources like the manpower to test, tools required,
documents required.
• Identifying areas of risks.
• Defining the test completion criteria.
• Identification of methodologies, techniques and tools for various test
cases.
• Identifying reporting procedures, bug classification, databases for
testing, Bug Severity levels, project metrics

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Test Design

• Determining the test objectives and their Prioritization


• Preparing List of Items to be Tested
• Mapping items to test cases
• Selection of Test case design techniques
• Creating Test Cases and Test Data
• Setting up the test environment and supporting tools
• Creating Test Procedure Specification

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Test Execution

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Post-Execution / Test Review

• Understanding the Bug


• Reproducing the bug
• Analyzing the nature and cause of the bug
• Reliability analysis
• Coverage analysis
• Overall defect analysis

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Software Testing Methodology

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Test Strategy Matrix

• Select and Rank Test Factors


• Identify the System Development Phases
• Identify the Risks associated with System under
Development

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Development of Test Strategy

Verification: “Are we building the product right?”

Validation: “Are we building the right product?”

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V Testing Life Cycle Model

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Validation Activities

• Unit Testing
• Integration Testing
• Function Testing
• System Testing
• Acceptance Testing

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