Quality Assurance: Building Zero-Error Business Solutions!

Have you ever been unsatisfied with the ice cream you received from the Ice-cream man? It might be because you didn’t like its taste or the flavour was not exactly what you paid for. Well, this happens in businesses too. Clients often get upset with the work when they don’t find quality in it. And a matter of this fact is that a quality determination of the work in the IT industry is done through a systematic process called Quality Assurance. 

You can understand this term way easier by analyzing how far a client’s expectations are met in any business solution, product, or service. Thus, the QA team of business organizations is responsible for ensuring a quality presence in the developed applications and websites and meeting clients’ specific requirements. For that part, a QA of any company should be a critical thinker, have good communication, and be good at Testing & other programming skills.

Quality Assurance: Important Or Worthless?

Quality assurance service in India is overall an effective business strategy that helps the organization to serve high-quality offerings and grow seamlessly in multiple ways. The QA practice prevents errors and defaults associated with business solutions before they occur. The systematic testing process of businesses enables building zero-error solutions, increases clients’ reliability in the company, and eventually improves the work’s consistency & efficiency.

Quality Assurance Types:

A systematic process of testing software for error identification encompasses two types which are as follows: 

Functional Testing: It is a type of software testing that focuses on validating performance against functional aspects. It can be done both manually and via automation. This testing type ensures that each function of the software system, for say, UI, server communication, APIs, security, and other such features, is working properly. This enables users to experience smooth, easy, and quick application navigation. 

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Types Of Functional Testing

Functional Testing is divided into many parts, which are as follows. It is important to note that below, some types of functional Testing must be performed with every application as there are no alternatives to them exist. 

• Unit Testing: This testing is done when the application is in development. Developers perform this Testing to ensure each unit or component of the software is working properly and holds no bugs or issues. With Unit Testing, all different application parts can be tested individually to affirm each good module of the software. 

• Integration Testing: This testing is done after the development process. Both testers and developers perform this Testing to evaluate if the interaction of the individual units is flawless. In simple terms, this Testing combines individual units as a group and then validates if their interaction with the software is as expected. 

• Smoke Testing: Also known as “Build Verification Testing,” smoke testing is another functional testing. It aims to ensure the basic features or functionality of the system are well, for example, the website’s graphical user interface. Overall, this is essential Testing to validate if the application starts successfully. 

• Sanity Testing: Unlike other types of functional testing, Sanity Testing ensures all business operations run successfully. It is a type of functional testing that ensures no presence of bugs in the system and that all the functions work adequately. For example, a user can be able to log in successfully, and the buttons being clicked navigate accordingly. 

• Regression Testing: Another important functional testing is Regression Testing. This process ensures that the changing code in the software does not affect its functionality. In simple terms, when a bug is identified and later fixed, then there shouldn’t be any disruption to the application’s functionality. This Testing validates that all parts of the system work properly after the applied changes.
•  User Acceptance Testing: It is the final functional testing done from the client’s end to validate if the system is up to the expectations. This testing is performed before the release of the final product to certify an acceptable working of the system. Usually, two or more end-users are involved in processing this user acceptance Functional Testing.
  

3 Ways To Perform Functional Software Testing:

Here are three important ways to perform functional software testing. Let’s look over the detailed description of each of them below and identify which Testing is the potential. 

• Manual Testing: As the name suggests, Manual Testing is done manually to identify bugs in the software systems. A QA performs this Testing by preparing manual write-ups in the form of test cases. All such test cases belong to a specific test scenario prepared by QA from an end-user perspective against the features/functionality of the mobile or web application.
  

• API Testing: API Testing stands for Application Programming Interfaces testing. It is done to ensure that the programming interfaces (computing interface for data exchange and communication between two individual software systems) are reliable, functional, and secure. In this type of testing, the software has been used to send calls to the APIs, thereby noting the system’s responses. Instead of the look and feel of the application, this Testing emphasizes the logic layer of the software system from the business’s perspective. Some of these logic layers in the API testing are GET- for selection, PUT- to edit, POST- for creation, DELETE- to delete, etc.
  

• Automation Testing: It is software testing that involves exclusive automated testing software tools. This testing is opposite to manual testing, wherein a human executes the test cases sitting in front of the computer, while in the automation testing, software tools are utilized to execute the test suites. While using the entered test data into the testing system, the automation testing software compares the actual results with the expected ones and generates a detailed test report accordingly. 
  

Why Is Automation Testing So Important?

This testing method is presently the most demanding and admired method due to time and money friendliness. It tests tech products and applications for bugs, defects, and other possible issues that may arise with product development. It is software testing performed through automated testing software tools to ensure that the respective application or the software system is designed up to the expectation.

Automation Testing saves considerable time that may occur in preparing manual test cases all over again, and it also saves additional costs of manually repeating test cases. Once prepared, automated test cases can be used multiple times and are faster than preparing manual test suits. Here are some other potential reasons for choosing automated Testing over any other testing software method. 

• It has greater testing coverage of application features. 
• It ensures proficiency, consistency, and efficiency. 
• Automation testing is more effective and productive. 
• Human involvement is not needed in this testing. 
• It is both time and money-saving. 
• Test Automation is 70 times faster than manual testing. 
• This testing software method is not error-prone. 

Conclusion!

Walking through the information mentioned above, you must have realized the importance of quality assurance if you’re in IT business indulgence. Serving clients isn’t a tough job in this ever-changing technology; the challenge is to meet their expectations which testing software solutions can smoothly do. Primewayz has a hands-on experienced QA team that deals in all advanced technologies to meet every client’s requirements strictly.