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Software Quality Assurance

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Trainer: Faiza Yousuf

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What is Quality?

Scope
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Quality

Cost

Time

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Why is quality important?

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Less re-work, fewer mistakes & efficiency improves Satisfaction

Productivity Customer More

Business
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How can we determine quality in software?

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Verified Validated

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SQA vs. SQC

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Quality

control emphasizes testing of software to uncover defects, and reporting to management who make the decision to allow or deny the release. assurance attempts to improve and stabilize development, and associated processes, to avoid, or at least minimize, issues that led to the defects in the first place.

Quality

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Where do SQA and SQC lie in SDLC?

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SQC

lies after the development phase.

SQA

is active in all phases of SDLC.

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Software Quality Factors

Understandability Completeness Conciseness Portability Consistency Maintainability Testability Usability Reliability Structured

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Why is software testing always a must-do?

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discover defects.
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avoid user detecting problems (Customer Satisfaction). prove that the software has no faults (Verified). avoid being sued by customers . ensure that product works as user expected (validated). stay in business (Quality improves business). detect defects early, which helps in

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Software testing Types

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White Black Gray

box testing box testing

box testing

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Software testing methods

Unit

testing testing testing testing testing

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Functional

Integration Regression

Performance Smoke Sanity

testing testing testing

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Load/stress User

Acceptance testing testing

Exploratory

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Two ways for software testing

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Manual

testing testing

Automated

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Few Important Terms

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Bug Test Test

Case plan Validation Matrix criteria

Field

Assessment

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What is a bug life cycle?

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Software Testing Life Cycle

Test Test Test

Planning Analysis Design and verification Cycles

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Construction Testing Final Post

Testing and Implementation Implementation

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Questions?

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Thanks for participating!

You can reach me at faiza.yousuf@live.com or find me at LinkedIn.

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