Software testing is the process conducted to test the quality of the service or product, and the result is provided to the stake holders. Software testing is also defined as the process of validating and verifying a software program or application.
Following are the benefits that a business can receive by implementing software testing in their business plan:
- Software testing discovers if critical functionality works.
- Software testing makes sure that the product doesn’t negatively effect interacting systems, which helps in the repeated sales.
- It provides tangible results for the business.
- There are different types of tools available for testing a product and there is no need to invest in tool license and the service provider is supposed to ensure that latest version of the tool is provided.
- Cloud server provider provides the hardware infrastructure and tool load required to perform the testing.
- Automated testing helps to build a suit of of tests that covers every feature in the application.
- Automated testing can be reused on different versions of an application, even if the user interface changes.
- Software testing helps in early detection of fault and reduces the cost of fault detection. The earlier a defect is found, the less development rework and retest is required, minimizing its implementation cost.
- Software testing helps in increasing the efficiency of software development process through metrics such as root cause analysis.
- Software testing gives the information about defect reports and metrics. Project managers rely on metrics to report on progress and operations. They also depend on tangible results to extrapolate future hardware requirements and further depend on developers on defect reports to fix their code.