What is QA testing?
QA is about the engineering process of ensuring that your
product is of the highest possible quality for your customers. Software
Testing is to test a product for problems before the product
goes live.QA is simply the technique used to prevent issues with
your service or product and to ensure great user experience for your
customers. But what are the QA best practices?
As a software testing outsourcing provider with experience in
460+ projects, we at Miri Infotech have developed a proven approach to setting
up an efficient QA process, and it comprises the following activities:
Requirement:
Without having a clear requirement, a project cannot be taken off. This is the
most important crucial phase and to take the project smoothly all the ideas
need to be get written in a well understandable and formatted document. Consider
yourself to be lucky if you are the part of the project in the requirement
gathering phase.
Wondering why?
It is because you are witnessing a project in making from
scratch and it also comes with some responsibilities and challenges too.
Faced Challenges:
You have to be patient though, as you cannot imagine all
the requirements to gather in a single sitting. A lot of discussions takes
place, some of which might be irrelevant to your project but even then they may
some important information for your project.
Test Strategy: Testers
are supposed to come out with a test strategy that is not just sufficient to
test the software better but should also instill confidence in every
stakeholders regarding the quality of the product.
Faced Challenges:
The most important aspect of this phase is to create a
strategy which when worked upon should deliver a software product that is
error-free, sustainable, and accepted by its end users. Test strategies cannot
be changed every other day. In some cases, you are required to discuss
your test strategies with the customers also. So this part should be deal with
high importance.
Test Planning: QA
has introduced the process of agile testing. This is the planning phase where
the strategy is implemented.
As like a test strategy, test planning is also a
crucial phase.
Challenges:
Since the success or the failure of the projects
completely depends upon how the tests are carried out, and this phase is
considered as the important phase of the entire test lifecycle. Want to know
why? Because a very crucial part of testing is defined in this phase.
Testing: It is a
system of assassinating in order to identify any gaps, errors, or missing
requirements contrary to the actual requirements. Here your application is built out and you are ready to find the bugs. Now it’s time to test on planning
and find as many as bugs possible.
Faced Challenges:
Many challenges are faced while testing an application.
Testing itself is an error-prone and cumbersome process.
Before Release:
The quality of the product should be ensured before it is going to be released
in the market. Software’s are developed once but they are actually being tested
until they are removed or replaced.
Faced Challenges:
The software should be tested rigorously for many of its
parameters.
The parameters may not be
limited to:
Behavioral / Functionality
Performance
Scalability
Compatible with the said platforms
To predict the success rate of application is also a challenge that depends on many iterations of the testing performed.
The below picture shows the
software release lifecycle map:
Release: Finally,
it is the time when we are ready to deliver the product to its intended user.
After going through many stages and doing testing and
finding out bugs, we have completed this stage. QA has done the testing phase
and has finally delivered the product.
Now the QA Process is set,
What’s Next?
It is false to think that once you have a QA process set
up, you can deliver quality software without investing effort in fine-tuning
the established QA activities. We at Miri Infotech believe that even a
blemished designed QA process required to be systematically reviewed and
improved. To make sure your QA process contemplate the changes introduced to
software or other project processes, our QA Experts recommend performing
regular QA process audits to detect inefficiencies and reveal the areas for
further improvement.
