After reading chapter 5 on Automation testing of all time favorite book on testing - "Lessons learnt in software testing" and this interesting thread of discussion on "software testing" Yahoo group discussion – let me re-define “software testing” or its objective as follows
"Software testing is a questioning process that is aimed at getting information about the software product under test"
Based on what kind information one wants to know about the application under test - testing takes different shape - hence we have different types, levels of testing.
This definition is very simple yet very powerful.
Friday, June 17, 2005
Another classic definition of Testing ....
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I have since refined that definition a little, to make it more memorable and quotable:
"Testing is questioning a product in order to evaluate it"
-- James Bach
A definition I've used: "The role of the test team is to provide information for management to make decisions on the quality of the product."
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