TESTING TECHNIQUES

Testing Services refers to the part of the Quality Management process known as Quality Control. Quality Control takes place throughout the Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC).

At TEAM, we follow proven standards/methodologies. Testing Services begin at the outset of the SDLC, meaning that Testers can contribute to the project starting with Requirements Analysis and Planning processes. Of course, the structure of TEAM’s Testing Services can be completely tailored to your company’s internal processes as desired.

Test Management is the practice of organizing and controlling the process and artifacts required for a software testing effort. Test management is divided into different phases: organization, planning, execution and reporting.

Test Planning is the strategic planning of the scope, approach, resources, schedule, and the documentation requirements for the intended testing activities. This process identifies test items, the features to be tested, the testing tasks, responsibilities, required resources and any risks which may require contingency planning.

Manual Testing is the process of manually testing software for defects. It requires a tester to play the role of an end user, and use most or all features of the application to ensure correct behavior. To ensure completeness of testing, the tester often follows a written test plan that leads them through a set of important test cases.

Automated Testing is a type of software testing which employs software tools to execute tests without manual intervention. Automated testing uses software to control the execution of tests, to compare actual outcomes to predicted outcomes, to set up test preconditions, and to do other test control and test reporting functions. This form of testing can be applied to GUI, performance, API, and many other forms of testing, but it gains its most value from performing lengthy routine tasks which must be tested repeatedly over time (such as Regression Testing).

Functional Testing / Black Box Testing consists in functional test case design: Test case selection is based on an analysis of the specification of the component without reference to its internal workings. Functional testing ignores the internal mechanism of a system or component and focuses solely on the outputs generated in response to the selected inputs and execution conditions.

Gray Box Testing is a combination of Black Box and White Box testing methodologies: testing a piece of software against its specification by using some knowledge of its internal workings.

Integration or System Testing is an orderly progression of testing in which software elements, hardware elements, or both, are combined and tested to evaluate their interactions until the entire system has been integrated.

Regression Testing is a term which refers to a scope of test procedures and test cases which have been run previously and which will continue to be run each time maintenance and/or new functionality or enhancements have been applied to an application. Effective regression tests generate sufficient code execution coverage to exercise all meaningful code branches.

Load or Stress Testing is a type of testing conducted to evaluate a system or component at or beyond the limits of its specified requirements to determine the load and conditions under which it fails.

Ad Hoc or Exploratory Testing is a testing practice where the tester tries to 'break' the system by randomly trying the system's functionality. This type of testing is carried out using no recognized test case design technique.

Migration Testing is the systematical preparation for and testing of a planned migration process from one domain to another. Migration Testing allows you to ensure that users who are migrated from the source to the target domain are able to log on, to access resources based on group membership or user credentials, and that they have retained their desktop settings. Migration Testing also allows you to ensure that users are able to access the resources that you migrate.

Compatibility or Interoperability Testing is the process of determining the ability of two or more systems to exchange information. In a situation where the developed software replaces an already working program, an investigation should be conducted to assess compatibility problems between the new software and other programs or systems.

Unit testing is the process of testing an individual software unit, be it a class, function or module, to evaluate whether it performs the required functions and returns the correct results and data.