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What are two primary goals of testing?

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November 09, 2005 02:59:15

gaurav_ghosh01@rediffmail.com

Member Since: November 2005 Contribution: 2

RE: What are two primary goals of testing?

There are 3 goals: Verification Error-Detection & Validation.

However since VAlidation & Error Dection have the same purpose so they can be combined as one.

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November 09, 2005 03:00:00

gaurav_ghosh01@rediffmail.com

Member Since: November 2005 Contribution: 2

RE: What are two primary goals of testing?

Gaurav Ghosh Wrote: There are 3 goals: Verification Error-Detection & Validation.
However since Validation & Error Detction have the same purpose so they can be combined as one.

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November 23, 2005 02:25:01

Ashok kumar reddy

RE: What are two primary goals of testing?

Goal 1: Testing is done with the indent of finding errors

Goal 2: Testing is done to find errors and get them corrected and makes the program with conformance with the functional and performance requirements as stated in the SRS document

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November 24, 2005 14:00:55

Prema

RE: What are two primary goals of testing?

1.finding an undiscovered errors with minimum amount of time and effort.

2.Testing ensure that software appears to be working as specified in the customers requirements.

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November 26, 2005 12:32:33

naga lakshmi

RE: What are two primary goals of testing?

The two goals of Testing are: 1.Bug Prevention 2.Bug Discovery

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December 01, 2005 01:05:08

Dinakaran

RE: What are two primary goals of testing?

i. To find the Defects

ii. To measure the quality of the Product

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December 19, 2005 04:37:46

Prerit

RE: What are two primary goals of testing?

To ensure that the product is working as expected by the end User.

To record the limitations of the product in a systamatic fasion and make sure that there is no surprises for the customer and dilivery team

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January 06, 2006 05:24:53

leonandini

Member Since: January 2006 Contribution: 27

RE: What are two primary goals of testing?

Hi Lakshmi

I would like to correct you here as Testing doesn't prevent the bugs rather one should say it detects the bugs.

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May 16, 2006 02:21:24

Rashmi U S

Member Since: May 2006 Contribution: 4

RE: What are two primary goals of testing?

Testing is done to

1.Find the bugs

2.To validate the software meets all specification and requirements

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April 07, 2007 08:27:46

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gorantla_rao

Member Since: February 2006 Contribution: 5

RE: What are two primary goals of testing?

The main goal of testing is

1. Identifying the defects
2. Preventing the defects
3. To check whether the customer requirements criterion is met.
and finally 4. To measure the quality of the Product.

If we want say in simple the testing is nothing but validation and verification.

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