A Friendly Introduction to Software Testing

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Author: Bill Laboon #

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By the end, my expectation is that the reader will have all the skills necessary to enter the workforce in the field of quality assurance, although I feel that managers, developers, and others involved in the software development process may also find it very useful.

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The world of software testing is quite a large one—testing embedded software is very different from testing web applications, performance testing is very different from functional testing, and testing for a startup’s first prototype product is very different from testing for a large company developing a medical device.

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At a high level, software testing is a way of providing an estimate of software quality to stakeholders (that is, people who have a direct interest in the system, such as customers, users, and managers).

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It’s a good thing to remember that software development is one of the most intellectually complicated things that human beings do, stretching the very limits of what the human mind is capable of.