What is blackbox testing ?
Filed Under Testing, Issues, Process, Development, Software | Posted on August 10, 2007
Blackboxes are the names used for the devices in planes that are expected to record the happenings in the plane and are useful if the plane crashes. However, the software blackbox is a different concept. It refers to the term of treating the software application as a box, of which you don’t know the internals […]
Creating a software test plan - Need
Filed Under Issues, Testing, SDLC, Process, Development, Software | Posted on August 10, 2007
Anybody who has worked in the field of software development would have heard of a software test plan. How many of you have actually understood the need for a software test plan?
Some of the reasons for making a comprehensive test plan are:
* Preparation: To assure that all reasonable aspects of running a test have been […]
Validation and verification explained
Filed Under Issues, Testing, SDLC, Process, Development, Software | Posted on August 10, 2007
There is typically a lot of confusion about what the terms of validation and verification mean with respect to software testing. Both of these are valid terms, used in the context of software testing, but mean different things. If you are looking for a one-line definition of both:
Verification is about building the product right.
Validation is […]
Problems with waterfall development model
Filed Under Model, Issues, Waterfall, SDLC, Development, Process, Software | Posted on August 3, 2007
Other software development models were developed (such as the Agile model) because it was felt that the sequential process defined in the Waterfall model was argued by many to be a bad idea in practice, mainly because of their belief that it is impossible to get one phase of a software product’s lifecycle in a […]
