The importance of Testing and Quality Assuran...

The importance of Testing and Quality Assurance in Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC) Models

Author Name : Waliullah Karimi, Afroj Alam

ABSTRACT

In recent years, software testing is become more popular and important in the software development life cycle Indeed software testing is a broad term encircling a variety of activities along the development cycle Hence software testing research faces a collection of challenges most relevant challenges is proposed here. It’s the starting point is constituted by some important past achievements. while the destination consists of two major identified goals to which research ultimately leads but which remains as reachable as goals. The routes from the achievements to the goals are paved by outstanding research challenges, which are discussed in the paper. The testing of software is an important means of assessing the software to determine its quality. Since testing typically consumes 40-50% of development efforts and consumes more effort for systems that require higher levels of reliability it is a significant part of the software engineering Software testing is a very broad area which involves many other technical and non-technical areas such as specification, design and implementation, maintenance, process and management issues in software engineering. Today testing is the most challenging and dominating activity used by industries therefore improvement in its effectiveness, both with respect to the time and resources is taken as a major factor by many researchers The purpose of testing can be quality assurance verification, and validation or reliability estimation. Software Quality is the central concern of software engineering. Testing is the single most widely used approach to ensuring software quality

Keywords: SDLC, Software quality, Testing Technique strategies achievements and policies