Software Quality Assurance and Testing for Beginners

Software applications have crossed the boundaries of the organizations and have reached to almost all the people helping them in their day to day activities. Hence the focus on quality of application is becoming more and more critical in this highly competitive world.So, Software quality assurance and testing has become a full-fledged engineering involving detailed processes and techniques. Most of the books available in the market focus on theories with an objective to impart as many aspects as possible targeting beginners, project leads, managers and strategists at the same time. The concepts explained in those books are not in the manner they need to be implemented in project. So, Students and beginners find it difficult to understand and apply these concepts when they get in to industry. This book sets the context by explaining importance of Software Quality Assurance and Testing and continues to explain how important aspects of software quality assurance and testing can be used at each phase while developing a business application. These aspects include Testing levels, Techniques, Test project execution process, Defect Management, Test Automation, Risk based testing and non-functional testing such as Usability Testing, Performance and Load Testing, Security Testing etc. This approach is quite helpful to ensure quality for each development activity leading to a good quality software reaching to customer. The reader will be able effectively understand and apply the knowledge gained from the concepts and examples explained in this book in the projects so as to meet primary objective of finding the greatest possible number of errors with a manageable amount of efforts applied over a realistic time span with a finite number of test cases.The content of this book is prepared based on syllabus covered in a graduation program keeping in mind industry requirements. Hence beginners who do not have any experience in developing business applications can also easily grasp and apply their learning immediately.Independent software testing is considered to be one of the fastest growing markets and hence this book can be very useful to many students aspiring to build career in Software Testing.