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Emerging Trends in Software Testing May 12, 2008

Posted by kiranjoglekar in : Uncategorized , trackback

            Software Testing is one of the Most Emerging area in IT industry
which is rapidly growing. Increased competition and  customer demand
has  made  software  testing  a key operation which demands nowadays top talents and pay packets.

 

              Software Testing plays a  strategic role  in  ensuring  product
quality  in  the  software  development  process.  It  helps  a  software
development  team focus  on  the customer’s  needs  throughout  the product cycle. While  deploying  software  solutions, large enterprises today   enlist  the  help  of   independent  validation  and  verification  (Testing) companies to conduct functional testing of the solution. In such cases the company requires domain-specific testing skills.

 

         In  software  companies,  testing professionals work closely with
the IT/ development  teams  to  finalise a high-level strategy covering
scope,   types   of   testing  to  be  done  (functional,  load,  etc),   test
environments,  defect management and contingency plans and how to
validate requirements.

 
       Software Testing consists of two parts one is Manual Testing and
the  second is Automation Testing. There are various Software Testing
Tools like  Winrunner,   QTP  etc   which   are   widely  used for testing purposes.

 

    For working as a software tester mostly Graduates/Engineers/MCA’s
are preferred. Nowadays  even  some companies take Diploma and arts
students as testers.

 

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