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Having a proper software testing strategy is crucial to consistently maintaining a high-quality level for your organization’s software.
1. Keep documentation at the “right’ Level, and ask why?
Keeping the documentation at the right level is essential for a successful software testing strategy. Of course, the “right level” depends on the organization and the maturity level of its testing.
2. Do defect analysis to find where to put the team effort
We must look at the root cause of these defects and determine where most of them occur in the software, when they occur and why. Then we can get toward improving rather than just fixing defects.
3. Do requirements analysis to determine testability, clarity, and completeness.
If your requirements are not testable, then a developer does not really know how to approach developing that feature. The latter might not be complete or clear regarding what passes or fails. Therefore, it’s important for testers to really understand and develop the requirements so that they can be tested and developed properly.
4. Work Closely With Developer/Collaborate For Unit Testing.
Everybody talks about unit testing. As testers, perhaps we don’t know precisely how to write code for unit testing. But we can work with developers on precisely what each function should entail and the different subfunctions of the features. That will allow testers to know what the features should do, both in a positive sense and a negative one (what the features, or users, should not be able to do).
5. Analyze Customer Support
This is an overlooked element in software testing strategy. Indeed, an organization can extract rich data from analyzing customer support tickets to determine where users have problems. So, we highly recommend looking at that crucial source of data. For example, if users are getting confused, we may need to look at these areas. Maybe they are not clear, ambiguous and so on.
The next one on our list of elements for a successful software testing strategy is automation.
6. Develop An Automation Strategy To Prioritize According To What Makes Sense
Automation is another topic that businesses often talk about. These companies sometimes use such terms as “we want to automate that many percent” and so on. But every company and every software is different, so we need to look at each individually. Indeed, some lend themselves very easily to test automation. In contrast, others might not be suitable for automation because of their architecture level and the complexity of how the functions interact.
7. Conduct Performance Test Early Using Realistic Scenarios And API Testing
7.1.1. Performance test
Performance test has to be realistic and should be done early. We need to think about the top 3 activities end-users would do.
7.1.2. API test
Another aspect we want to make sure we undergo is API and database testing. These can be done before the software is actually finished.
8. Conduct Usability Tests Early Via The Hallway And 80/20 Heuristics
Usability test does not need to be expensive or involve things like “focus groups” or “the need of an official usability company”. Instead, just bring somebody in your office then take your iPad/mobile phone out, and let your co-worker go through the application for five minutes, assigning them a task. Then watch them go through the exercise and see if they get confused or complete the job in a reasonable amount of time. You will get you 80% of what you need to know to improve your application, at only 20% of the effort, the time, and the cost.
9. Conduct Security Test Early
The earlier a company can carry out these tests, the better off it will be. For example, it can create security user story as part of its agile process. Such a user story could be a vulnerability assessment, or simulating a malicious user trying to do something.
10. Ensure Platform Compatibility With A Coordinated Strategy.
There are still many issues to be solved with platform compatibility:
• The number of operating systems,
• The number of end-user devices, etc.
Depending on its market, every company’s software will have a different user group, user profiles, and operating systems. Therefore, we need a clear software testing strategy on when to use real devices, simulated devices, and cloud devices.
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