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SOFTWARE QUALITY IN PERSPECTIVE

The general view of software testing is that it is an activity to “find bugs.” The author believes the objectives of software testing are to qualify a software program’s quality by measuring its attributes and capabilities against expectations and applicable standards. Software testing also provides valuable information to the software development effort.

Software quality is something everyone wants. Managers know that they want high quality, software developers know they want to produce a quality product, and users insist that software work consistently and be reliable.

Many software quality groups develop software quality assurance plans, which are similar to test plans. However, a software quality assurance ...

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