The Changing Paradigm of Testing Industry

Software testing was an important turning point in the IT industry. It has changed the face of the software world today. In today's world, consumer expectations are very high on quality. They want customized access from anywhere, anytime, through any device and within no time and with no glitches. Satisfying such consumer needs and expectations of high quality were only possible by immense software testing. Testing has optimized software business products and has lessened the complexities faced by software developers. It has helped improve the overall software development life cycle.

Opening the event with a keynote session, Arun Kumar Singh, Vice President and Global Head Testing ,Financial Services, Wipro, threw some light on the importance of testing in today's business and tried to forecast where testing will go in years ahead. He spoke about 1.0, 2.0 and 3.0 phases of software testing.

Metrics in Software Testing

Metrics for Evaluating Application System Testing:

Metric = Formula

Test overage = Number of units (KLOC/FP) tested / total size of the system. (LOC represents Lines of Code)

Number of tests per unit size = Number of test cases per KLOC/FP (LOC represents Lines of Code).

Acceptance criteria tested = Acceptance criteria tested / total acceptance criteria

Defects per size = Defects detected / system size

Test cost (in %) = Cost of testing / total cost *100

Cost to locate defect = Cost of testing / the number of defects located

Software Testing Standards - CMM

Capability Maturity model

-          It is a five level assessment model

-          Capability Maturity Model (CMM) broadly refers to a process improvement approach that is based on a process model. CMM also refers specifically to the first such model, developed by the Software Engineering Institute (SEI) in the mid-1980s, as well as the family of process models that followed.