It wouldn’t be wrong to say that all the software quality experts dream about delivering top quality software without rolling out a lot of defects. For that, they try to follow product quality metrics and QA best practices. Despite taking care of quality KPI, measuring testing metrics, and several performance metrics, they still fall for various defects.
In this blog post, you will learn the 5 most common software testing pits and their solutions.
Inaccurate Schedule of Testing
Inadequate Testing Mindset
Missing Out on QA Lessons
Unstable Testing Environment
Lack of Communication
Testing is a heck of a task that takes a lot of time and effort. It definitely has to be tough because it finds out inadequacies of the system under several scenarios and conditions. It’s quite evident from the years of software testing experience that testing must be done right from the beginning in a software development cycle.
We simply cannot keep testing in the later stage of the development cycle, as the errors would become uncontrollable at that point. Moreover, it will consume more time and budget to handle those bugs at later stages for good software quality.
Due to other urgency and the willingness to make clients happy with the progress of the software development process, quality assurance managers sometimes postpone testing. And in some of the cases when they find a time for testing, it’s commonly the very later stages of the development cycle. That’s not the only problem with such a practice, the bigger issue is that such postponing leaves very little time for testing. As a result, the testing is not done thoroughly no matter what software testing tools you may use. This all simply arises from the problem of inadequate scheduling of testing.
Solution
Software testing is often done with a mindset to find out the functionality of the system. However, it should rather be finding inadequacies or defects. Such a software quality management practice distracts the team members to focus more on flaws in the software. As a result, the testing is not done accurately or doesn’t serve its purpose.
Solution
You can witness that most of the errors and problems repeatedly appear in different software projects. It wouldn’t be wrong to say that this problem is related to software quality management.
If the previously done mistakes are repeated again and again, you will have to pay the cost again and again. So to cut the cost down, we need to keep the learned lessons in mind and must avoid them in the future.
Solution
Software development and QA testing are tough tasks and become even more challenging with the changing requirements specifications. That’s when you hit a snag! With such a challenge in mind, developers make changes to the test environment. And that’s not enough, they have to deal with the newly added functions too.
Besides, another important aspect is that multiple testers are a part of the essential testing process and it obviously becomes extremely difficult to keep track of the changes. Consequently, QA testing teams miss out on the updates of all the changes made by different team members. As a result, the testing environment becomes unstable due to disorder in the application lifecycle.
Solution
Here’s what we need to do instead!
Communication is the backbone of any organization and if it’s not done properly can lead to various problems. In this regard, quality software testing has no exception. In fact, the intensity of consequences faced by this sector is much stronger.
Many software development companies face a lack of communication either between the team-lead and the developers or the projects manager and clients.
Let’s have a look at why communication problems exist:
The software quality is significantly affected by the communication problems and result in delayed product development and delivery or a bad quality product.
Solution
In this blog post, you have gone through the most common software testing issues faced by most organizations. Also, we shared our thoughts on how to handles those problems and avoid having them in the future. These suggestions can help you follow the QA best practices and follow your software quality metrics to develop and deliver the best software product.
