It wasn’t me!
We recently announced a new release of one of our software solutions, it was a big one that introduced lots of new and exciting features to our customers! Surely adding all of these new elements to our software wouldn’t break the existing functionality, because we didn’t touch that code base!...
Wrong!
The new code that we had introduced not only presented snazzy new features, it also brought along various new bugs and defects with it- some that interfered with our existing functionality. LUCKILY, we caught all (most) of this in development, before release ...
Testing, testing, testing !
Here at Quaytech we know how important testing is in the software development lifecycle and we have a rigorous testing regime in place to try and catch as many of these unexpected outcomes as possible before the software is released to the customer. We use various automated and manual testing practices to check that the software does what is should- and also what it shouldn’t! By doing a combination of both we get pretty good coverage (although it is unlikely we will find them all)!
Here are our top tips for successful software testing:
- Start as early as possible, so there is time for development fixes!
- Testing time is usually limited, start at the most business critical areas first
- Use unexpected and invalid inputs, not just expected user inputs
- Test what the system should do (user requirements), but also the things it should not do.
- Always regression test before a big release!