What is the purpose of software testing's - Bug removal, System's functionality working, quality or all?

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Answered by: Satya Prakash Itharaj.

  • Oct 4th, 2005

The main purpose of Software testing, I think is not to remove the bug but to find the bug. Also ensuring the application works correctly as per the requirements and thereby increasing the quality of the product and increasing the confidence in the product.

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Anu

  • Aug 25th, 2005
 

Yes,purpose of software testing's is to detect the Bug , System's functionality working will be smooth , and the job is done with full quality.

poonamppatel

  • Sep 16th, 2005
 

Yes, purpose of software testing is Bug removal, System's functionality working, quality and in addition demonstration of the correct performance, and conformance of the requirements .

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Satya Prakash Itharaj.

  • Oct 4th, 2005
 

The main purpose of Software testing, I think is not to remove the bug but to find the bug. Also ensuring the application works correctly as per the requirements and thereby increasing the quality of the product and increasing the confidence in the product.

sachin

  • Nov 15th, 2005
 

The main purpose of the software testing is to give the proper quality product and to satisfies the customer requirements

Mandar Tarkunde

  • May 24th, 2006
 

Testing involves operation of a system under controlled conditions and evaluating the results. The control conditions should include both normal and abnormal conditions. Testing is basically to determine if the things happen when they should not be happen and things don?t happen when they should be. It is oriented to ?DETECTION?.

James

  • May 5th, 2007
 

The purpose of the software testing is to know whether the application is according to the client's requirement. Even the developer develop the application according to the client there will be so many critical defects due to some miss understandings and not having proper communication with the client. Software testing is a must to avoid such type of defects and get the application according to the client's requirement.

Ravi

  • Jun 13th, 2007
 

To deliver the quality product to the end user and to detect errors, also ensuring that all the requirements are fulfilled or not

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devang

  • Jun 19th, 2007
 

no because testing means to find every conceivable faults or defect in work product
not to remove ..it is done by developers...

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Sujatars

  • Aug 15th, 2007
 

The purpose of software testing is to meet the user requirements & see that the product?developed is fit to use from customers perspective.
Also to find bugs as early as possible and tract them.

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harikrishna

  • Sep 14th, 2007
 

Software testing is to make the application from bug free and verify it whether it matches according to client requirements,

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vidya

  • Nov 2nd, 2007
 

The main purpose of software testing is :
- To find the bugs
- To check the functionality of the application
- To test whether the application developed meets the customer requirements or not.
- Hence giving the quality product to the customer.

saransh.kanaujia

  • Mar 17th, 2008
 

software testing is to improve quality of a project to find bugs in it. This bug may be related to functionality working or anything else related to that software application

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gourisuda

  • Mar 22nd, 2008
 

inorder to give a very good quality to the customer inerms of  bussiness requirements and customer expectations .

an application is said to be good when it is free from bugs .

 Inorder to say one application is doing well , it should work as it was intended to .

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vishalnaib

  • May 12th, 2008
 

The purpose is to meet the specified requirements of the client and achieve higher standards of quality delieverables to the client

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vk1978

  • Feb 19th, 2009
 

The Main purpose of Software Testing is to break the application in what ever way we can, and make sure whether those bugs were fixed by the developers and ensure that the application is bug free, so that quality can be achieved and therefore ustomer satisfaction.

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rachel123

  • May 19th, 2009
 

The main use of  having strong software testing is to ensure that the applicat ion is bug free and is  developed   the way it is specified  in the requirements..

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surendra234

  • Nov 16th, 2009
 

The main purpose of software testing is to detect the defects not to remove the defects and make sure system's functionality is working as per the requirements and increase the quality of the product and increase the confidence in the product.

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Aliona

  • Dec 1st, 2009
 

Software testing is performed to verify that the completed software package functions according to the expectations defined by the requirements/specifications. The overall objective to not to find every software bug that exists, but to uncover situations that could negatively impact the customer, usability, and/or maintainability.

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mailme.qualityfirst

  • May 6th, 2010
 

Software testing is an investigation conducted to provide stakeholders with information about the quality of the product or service under test - wikipedia definition.

Testing is done with two main objectives to a) ensure the product is working as per the implied and explicit requirements. Else b) find the bug and report to the developer. In addition testing is also done to check the software under abnormal conditions.

Once the bugs are fixed, tester has to again ensure that bug is fixed, in addition ensure it is not impacting other modules/features by testing  :-)

Testing is done in three stages Functionality, Integration and System.

Functionality - Check functionality of every feature (is could be as simple as text box) with all possible valid and invalid data

Integration - Once all the features are testing now the integration of the features with the modules is testing (like compose mail and send, it should be in sent mails, if you save it should save in drafts...)

System - It is end to end testing, send mail to a maisl ID and check the inbox of that mail ID where Mail is recieved, if no then bug, if Yes, go and check the text,format, font .....whether it is same as sent

Rohit Malkani

  • Jan 24th, 2011
 

The main fuction of the software tester is to ensure that the application is created as per the requirement document. Incase there are any bugs, it has to be removed and ensure the quality of the applications/

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rohan.satpute

  • Feb 6th, 2011
 

Purpose for Software Testing:
1. To ensure whether the software Build is as per User Requirements/.
2. To ensure reasonably Bug free Software, to uncover bugs withing software, if any.
3. To improve quality of of the software prior to site deployment.
4. To check the performance of the software.
5. To reduce Failure Cost of deliverable'
6. To reduce risk
7. To Build Confidence within delivered Software

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manchoc

  • Feb 18th, 2011
 

Its Quality. Testing is a Quality Control (QC) activity. Software testing is the process of finding the defects so as to improve the quality of software. It doesnt mean that the software is 100% defect free but the quality will be high after validating when compared before testing.

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