A software product is developed keeping in mind certain requirements that the customer gives. Still, it often turns out to be a defective product due to several reasons like wrong requirements, communication gap, understanding gap, timing problems, incomplete technical knowledge, or less skilled people in the system.
This exposes software products to bugs, defects, or errors. Software testing is extremely important to avoid or prevent such problems and maintain software product quality. But equally important is developer performance review because the evaluation of programmers' work will influence the other quality of work.
We know that software testing is a process of evaluating software compliance with specific requirements. We follow many methods and models to ensure a quality product in this process. But even then, several areas can be improved for better software quality.
Types of a model.
There are two models listed below:
- Process Reference Model: Perform maturity measurements as part of an assessment, and assess the organization's capabilities.
- Content Reference Model: Improves the business-driven assessment of an organization's capabilities.
For example, benchmarking techniques.
Steps to improve software quality.
Step #1) Start the improvement process: Stakeholders agree upon goals, objectives, scope, and coverage. Success criteria should be defined. A method should be established to measure the improvement.
Step 2) Diagnose the current situation: A free assessment approach and a test assessment report are created. It contains an assessment of current testing practices and a list of process improvements.
Step #3) Action for improvement: Training and mentoring are done.
Step #4) Learning from the improvement plan: Determine what benefit in addition to the expected use was gained. Monitor. Let's focus on the first step mentioned above, i.e., how to improve software quality through process improvement.
Conclusion.
Behind every successful product, delivery should be some strategies to follow the various software testing processes. Implement these simple software testing process improvement steps mentioned in this article to deliver the best quality product.
In this tutorial, we have covered the various process improvement steps and techniques followed in any SDLC (Software Development Life Cycle) model during the sprint cycle to deliver the best quality product in the optimum time frame.
Software testing is an integral part of the SDLC, and its purpose is to evaluate the system as a whole and meet customer requirements. So, as a team, we must implement the above ways to improve the software testing process, which will eventually lead to better performance and quality of the software product.