Software Testing vs. Software Quality Assurance - Career Training @ Portnov School - 6

Software Testing (Software Quality Assurance) is a unique IT job market niche for those who have limited time frame to change career path to a well paid profession.

The profession is easy to learn. Simply put the job of a software tester is in finding and reporting differences between actual behavior of a software product and its expected behavior. The more technical knowledge the person has the more jobs that person could qualify for. But even with very limited technical skills you can test many web applications from the user stand point email, on-line retail store, web-communities, on-line banking, games, educational services, and many others.

Wikipedia defines Software Testing as the process used to measure the quality of developed computer software. Testing is a process of technical investigation, performed on behalf of stakeholders, that is intended to reveal quality-related information about the product with respect to the context in which it is intended to operate. This includes, but is not limited to, the process of executing a program or application with the intent of finding errors. Quality is not an absolute; it is value to some person. With that in mind, testing can never completely establish the correctness of arbitrary computer software; testing furnishes a criticism or comparison that compares the state and behavior of the product against a specification.

We at Portnov Computer School define Software Testing as your chance to change your life.

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[marylouphilipp]

nice software

[SoftwareInnovation]

I also like 'Use Cases'. Working out what will bring benefits to users is one of the hardest and most valuable things you can do in my view. The simple way to control quality is searching for mistakes at each project phase. Make a note of your common mistakes and spend 3 mins thinking of ways you can prevent them. I would recommend reading a book or two on this, but with practice, quality control becomes easy to do. I like "Software Inspection" but there are many.

[MrSoftwareTest]

@SoftwareInnovation

I use documents!

Also i make from use case a test case!

:=)

[SoftwareInnovation]

It shocked me to learn that tools are the least effective software quality control method. There is the idea "Burn the Document" that says it is cheaper to throw away low quality code and design documents and rewrite than it is to fix the mistakes. If you need quality, use reviews of requirements, designs and automated tests.

[MrSoftwareTest]

He should skip some chapter and introduce the Tools what can they do with it.

As i had started i had not introduction!

Just the Testtool and the application that i should test.

The industry has no time for this chapter !

[maheryar]

The instructor gave a nice defination on difference between Software Quality Assurance and Software Testing but the example he gave regarding requirement is incorrect. He should give example on process.

[kishor2489]

It looks that you have other version like

Training @ Portnov School - 7, 8, 9 . But I could not find in youtube. I like your presentation and looking forward to see more presentations.

[Cyreath]

In this video the difference between QA and Testing is discussed. Great comment on why we test when we don't ever find all the bugs.