Applications of Software Testing
▪Cost Effective Development - Early testing saves both time and cost in many aspects, however reducing the cost without testing may result in improper design of a software application rendering the product useless.
▪Product Improvement - During the SDLC phases, testing is never a time-consuming process. However diagnosing and fixing the errors identified during proper testing is a time-consuming but productive activity.
▪Test Automation - Test Automation reduces the testing time, but it is not possible to start test automation at any time during software development. Test automaton should be started when the software has been manually tested and is stable to some extent. Moreover, test automation can never be used if requirements keep changing.
▪Quality Check - Software testing helps in determining following set of properties of any software such as
~Functionality
~Reliability
~Usability
~Efficiency
~Maintainability
~Portability
