Software testing challenges and solutions

Nowadays, software testing is incredibly important. As our own Tomomi Uchida Molin stated back in January, “updating and replacing software is essential to business”. Technology is a powerful driving force for so many organisations, and it affects us all in our everyday lives. As a software vendor, would you risk giving customers a product that had not been tested for bugs? Software customers, would you expect a smooth user experience? Testing then is a vital element in the software delivery cycle, and one which has its own testing moments – let’s look at some software testing challenges and solutions.

Poor Communication

Issues with communication can arise during the software development lifecycle. There are often many different teams working on the project. These teams can comprise of people from different cultural backgrounds. They can sometimes feature people working on different time zones too, which can be problematic in itself. Poor communication can be a very difficult obstacle to overcome, so what is the solution?

A focus on collaboration is essential. Every single person must be aware of their role and the roles of others. They must know what the objectives are throughout every phase of the project: Software development, software testing and then deployment. Ensure that you implement robust, transparent testing and engineering processes so that decisions can be made together.

Incomplete Documentation

A lot of organisations nowadays lean heavily towards verbal communication. This is often preferred for simple changes but can also be deployed for more complex requests. Whatever your preference, you must maintain documentation that consists of both functional and non-functional scopes of the project. How can you do this?

Conduct a full requirement analysis and then create comprehensive documentation that contains everything within that. Your QA testing teams will then be able to understand the project objectives and specifications step by step. They can then create the most relevant test cases to prevent software defects.

So there you have it, software testing challenges and solutions. There are of course many more to explore, so if you have something in mind then leave a comment below.

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