“Testing is a skill. While this may come as a surprise to some people it is a simple fact.”— Fewster and Graham
In this blog you will learn about some of the interesting myths about software testing. Software testing plays an important role in the digital world for making sure that software runs bug-free and meets the requirements of your end-users.
MYTHS ABOUT SOFTWARE TESTING
1. QA IS RESPONSIBLE FOR QUALITY OF THE PRODUCT: -
One of the common myth, where there is a thinking that quality of a product only depends upon the QA team but in reality, testers are responsible to find bugs and report it to the stakeholders, now it’s up to them to solve those bugs or release the product without solving, as there are some time constraints which makes testing more difficult.
2. TESTING IS TIME CONSUMING: -
Testing is a process, which starts from the initial stages of the product development. Following all the testing procedure, finding bugs and solving them is a time-consuming process but very effective and essential for a good quality software product.
3. TESTED SOFTWARE IS BUG-FREE: -
An interesting myth about testing where, common person think that tested software is bug free and that’s a complete lie because no software can be 100% bug free, a tester can reduce the amount of bugs but can’t make it bug-free.
4. TESTING IS ALL ABOUT FINDING BUGS: -
Testing contains so many processes and responsibilities from initial stages of product development, whether it’s verifying requirements, documentation, giving the best suggestions, finding bugs etc. They are the key persons behind a good quality product.
5. AUTOMATION TESTING CONSUMES LESS TIME: -
It is true at some point in automation testing where testers execute scripts to test, which is fast as compare to manual testing but automation testing cannot cover all aspects of testing.
6. MISSED DEFECTS ARE DUE TO TESTERS: -
There are some constraints like time, requirement changing which affects in doing an effective testing of the product, which leads to missing defects in the product.
7. ANYONE CAN TEST A SOFTWARE APPLICATION: -
A good test engineer requires a good skill set, a creative thinking to explore and find potential bugs in a software, which a common person can’t do easily.
8. TESTING IS BORING: -
Testing is not boring, whether it’s a detective job and it consists some process like investigation, exploration, discovery and learning.
9. TESTS THAT PASS YESTERDAY WILL PASS TOMORROW: -
A tester writes test cases covering all test scenarios and applies it while testing the software but sometimes, when the software gets some minor changes in the functionality, arises with a need to make change in test case also, so the new functionality should be checked because the previous test case can’t test that change.
10. TO PROGRESS WHY BEING AN AUTOMATION ENGINEER IS IMPORTANT: -
No! Pure brains with good reasoning and questioning skills are good enough to have a progressive and excellent career. Not always an automation engineer does the first round of testing.
