Software Quality

Engineering
(SEC-3073)
Fall 2021

Dr. Toqeer Mahmood

Software Testing

 “Testing is the process of executing a program or

system with the intent of finding errors.” by
Myers 1979
 Software testing is the process of analyzing a
software item to detect the differences between
existing and required conditions (that is, bugs)
and to evaluate the features of the software item
(IEEE, 1986; IEEE, 1990).
PRINCIPLES OF TESTING

 Glenford Myers in his book “The Art of Software

Testing” suggested the following testing
principles.
◦ A necessary part of a test case is a definition of the
expected output or result.
◦ A programmer should avoid attempting to test his or her
own program.
◦ Thoroughly inspect the results of each test.
◦ Test cases must be written for input conditions that are
invalid and unexpected, as well as for those that are
valid and expected.
STATIC TESTING APPROACH
 Examining a program to see if it does not do what it is
supposed to do is only half the battle; the other half is
seeing whether the program does what it is not supposed to
do.
 Avoid throwaway test cases unless the program is truly a
throwaway program.
 Do not plan a testing effort under the assumption that no
errors will be found.
 The probability of the existence of more errors in a section
of a program is proportional to the number of errors
already found in that section.
 Testing is an extremely creative and intellectually
challenging task.
 Exhaustive testing is not possible but we can assure that all
conditions have been exercised.
TESTING LIFE CYCLE
Testing Perspective

 Developer
◦ Understands the system
but will test “gently” and
is driven by “delivery”.

 Independent Tester
◦ Must learn about the
system but will attempt to
break it and is driven by
quality.
GENERIC TESTING PROCESS
 Test Planning:
◦ Define a software test plan by specifying a test schedule for a
test process and its activities.
 Test Design and Specification:
◦ Conduct software design based well-defined test generation
methods. Specify test cases to achieve a targeted test
coverage.
 Test Set up:
◦ Testing tools (Environment Set-up)
 Test Operation and Execution:
◦ Run test cases manually or automatically
 Test Result Analysis and Reporting:
◦ Report software testing results and conduct test result analysis
GENERIC TESTING PROCESS
 Problem Reporting:
◦ Report program errors using a systematic solution.
 Test Management and Measurement:
◦ Manage software testing activities, control testing schedule,
measure testing complexity and cost.
 Test Automation:
◦ Define software test tools
◦ Adopt and use software test tools
◦ Write software test scripts and facility
 Test Configuration Management
◦ Manage and maintain different versions of software test
suites, test environment and tools, and documents for various
product versions.
Software Testing Goals
 Requirements quality.
◦ SQA must ensure that the software team has properly reviewed the
requirements model to achieve a high level of quality.
 Design quality.
◦ Every element of the design model should be assessed by the
software team to ensure that it exhibits high quality and that the
design itself conforms to requirements.
 Code quality.
◦ Source code and related work products (e.g., other descriptive
information) must conform to local coding standards and exhibit
characteristics that will facilitate maintainability.
 Resource Management
◦ A software team should apply available resources in a way that has
the highest likelihood of achieving a high-quality result.
◦ SQA analyzes the allocation of resources for reviews and testing to
assess whether they are being allocated in the most effective
manner.
SQA TEAM
SOFTWARE TESTING LIMITS
 Due to the testing time limit, it is impossible to achieve
total confidence.
 We can never be sure the specifications are 100% correct.
 Test engineers never be sure that they completely
understand a software product.
 We never have enough resources to perform software
testing.
 We can never be certain that we achieve 100% adequate
software testing.
TESTING METHODS

 Manual Testing
 Automated Testing
MANUAL TESTING

 This type includes the testing of the Software

manually i.e. without using any automated tool.
 In this type the tester takes over the role of an end
user and test the software to identify any
unexpected behavior or bug.
 Testers use test plan, test cases or test scenarios to
test the software to ensure the completeness of
testing.
MANUAL TESTING
 Condition: Manual tests can be used in situations
where the steps cannot be automated, e.g. to
determine Usability Testing: This is an area in
which you need to measure how user-friendly,
efficient, or convenient the software or product is
for the end users. Here, human observation is the
most important factor, so a manual approach is
preferable.
 In manual testing Tester will create test cases,
execute test cases, and write bug report manually.
 Limitations: Load testing, performance testing.
MANUAL TESTING

• Manual testing allows for • More Time Consuming activity

human observation, which may
be more useful if the goal is • Boring and repetitive
user friendliness or improved
customer experience. • Efficiency depends on tester
AUTOMATED TESTING
 Automation testing, also known as Test Automation, is
when the tester writes scripts and uses another
software to test the software.
 This process involves automation of a manual process.
Automation Testing is used to re-run the test scenarios
that were performed manually, quickly and repeatedly.
 Automation is a not a Replacement of Manual Testing.
 If done properly, automated software testing can help:
◦ to improve accuracy,
◦ speed up the testing process,
◦ increase test coverage, &
◦ ultimately provide greater confidence in the quality of the
software being tested.
AUTOMATED TESTING

• Efficient (No variation in • Automated testing does not

results). entail human observation and
cannot guarantee user
friendliness or positive
customer experience.
MANUAL VS AUTOMATED TESTING

MANUAL TESTING AUTOMATED TESTING

Time consuming and tedious Fast

Huge investment in human Less investment in human resources
resources

Less reliable More reliable

Non-programmable Programmable
Manual Test is not reusable Automated Tests are reusable
High risk on missing out something Less risk of missing out something
STAGES OF TESTING
 Unit testing/Component Testing/Module testing
 Integration Testing
 System testing
 Acceptance testing • An over-seas review might take
many days as each ―back and
forth‖ can take a day, so it might
take five days to complete a
review instead of thirty minutes.
• It is difficult for Project managers
to track whether all changes have
been reviewed
TEST CASE
 A test case in software engineering is a set of
conditions or variables under which a tester will
determine whether an application or software
system meets specifications.
 A test case has components that describes an
input, action or event and an expected response, to
determine if a feature of an application is working
correctly.
 Result: Pass / Fail
 Test Suite: A collection of test cases.
◦ A test case may include many subsets.
TEST CASE
 Test Case ID: It is unique number given to test case in
order to be identified.
 Test description: The description of test case you are
going to test.
 Revision history: Each test case has to have its
revision history in order to know when and by whom
it is created or modified.
 Function to be tested: The name of function to be
tested.
 Test Setup: Anything you need to set up outside of
your application for example printers, network and so
on.
TEST CASE

 Test Execution: It is detailed description of every

step of execution.
 Expected Results: The description of what you
expect the function to do.
 Actual Results: pass / failed
 If pass - What actually happen when you run the test.
 If failed - put in description of what you've observed.
TRACEABILITY MATRIX

 Traceability Matrix is a document used for

tracking the requirement, test cases and the
defects.
 This document is made to convince the client that
the coverage done is complete as end to end.
 This document contains Requirement ID, test case
condition and bug ID.
 Using this document the person can track the
requirement based on bug ID.
TESTING TYPES
 Black Box Testing

 White Box Testing

 Gray Box Testing

BLACK BOX TESTING

 Black box testing is also known as

the functional testing.
 A software testing technique whereby the internal
workings of the item being tested are not known
by the tester. E.g., in a black box test on a
software design the tester only knows the inputs
and what the expected outcomes should be and not
how the program arrives at those outputs.
 The tester does not ever examine the programming
code and does not need any further knowledge of
the program other than its specifications.
BLACK BOX TESTING

• Tester can be non-technical. • Chances of having repetition

• This testing is most likely to of tests that are already done
find those bugs as the user by programmer.
would find. • It is difficult to identify all
• Testing helps to identify the possible inputs in limited
contradiction in functional testing time.
specifications.
• Test cases can be designed as
soon as the functional
specifications are complete.
White-Box Testing
 White-box testing (also known as
clear box testing, glass box testing,
transparent box testing, and structural
testing) is a method of testing software
that tests internal structures or workings
of an application, as opposed to its
functionality (i.e. black-box testing).
 The meanings of “clear box” and “glass box” appropriately
indicate that you have full visibility of the internal workings of
the software product, specifically, the logic and the structure of
the code.
 In white-box testing an internal perspective of the system, as
well as programming skills, are required and used to design test
cases. The tester chooses inputs to exercise paths through the
code and determine the appropriate outputs.
WHITE-BOX TESTING

• As the knowledge of internal • As knowledge of code and

coding structure is pre-requisite, internal structure is a
it becomes very easy to find out prerequisite, a skilled tester is
which type of input/data can needed to carry out this type of
help in testing the application testings.
effectively.
• The other advantage of white
box testing is that it helps in
optimizing the code.
GRAY BOX TESTING
 Gray box testing is a software testing technique that uses a
combination of black box testing and white box testing.
Gray box testing is not black box testing, because the tester
does know some of the internal workings of the software
under test.
 In gray box testing, the tester applies a limited number of
test cases to the internal workings of the software under
test. In the remaining part of the gray box testing, one
takes a black box approach in applying inputs to the
software under test and observing the outputs.
 This is particularly important when conducting integration
testing between two modules of code written by two
different developers, where only the interfaces are exposed
for test.