Before launching any product, testing the product plays an important role in business. When launching the software, the software goes through numerous tests to make it defect-free. This testing helps the software to meet technical and business requirements. Many people square measure below the impression that they’ll begin testing the product quickly to find bugs. The testing manager knows how important it is to test software. The critical factors that should be considered are:

Understanding the business requirement:

In this particular business, understanding your client’s needs and mindset and understanding the target audience is important. The professionals when translating the requirements of business into a working software indulge in too many technical details that they sometimes overlook what is the requirement is business. Sometimes the professionals ignore the value that adds to business when they find some features or modules more interesting and challenging. Thus it is important to understand the needs of the client before initiating software testing. You can consider some parameters when starting this process:

1.Functionality

The business requirement of every product differs from one another. The functionality of software requires that the professionals ponder over the technical details because a small mistake can cause major complexity. The client will also be mainly focused on the software’s functionality.

2.Being user-friendly

On the other hand if you are building gaming software, the graphics, and its storyline matter. In this case, the client is not interested in addressing the complex corner cases, rather he has a priority for the user interface of the software and the ease during accessing the game.

3.Time to market

Time is money and in this case time matters because your competitor might launch the same idea in the market before your client and if this happens, it can result in a major loss. It is important to launch the product even if it has few features. Stepping earlier in the market in an effective approach. More features can be added when the product updates. This depends upon what features and functionalities are being prioritized when the product plan is being launched.

4.Software prototype

You might need to work on a software prototyping model if the client is not sure about the business requirement.

5.Knowledge of target devices and platforms

It is important to know your target devices and platform to attract the target audience. The world’s tech market is filled with different devices like Personal computers, laptops, tablets, smartphones, etc. Testing software on every device before launch is difficult.

6.Manufacturing Your Test Strategy

Once you understand your target audience and the importance of your business needs, manufacture of the test strategy is the next step. This can be done by first understanding the business needs and then selecting the testing types.

7.Use of appropriate testing tools

After the manufacturing of the testing strategy, it is important to use correct testing tools. Many testing tools are present in the market to help in testing. Even after rigorous testing, bugs are going to appear in the software. In a business choosing a bug management tool is very difficult because a business must be carefully evaluated and what tools it requires. Some of the bug management tools evaluated by professionals are Kualitee, ServiceNow ITBM, quest, spiratest, etc.

8.Establishing Quality Assurance Process

Quality assurance includes a complete quality cycle starting from an understanding of requirements, creation of test scenarios, execution of test cases, identification and reporting of bugs, verifying the fixes and finally performing the smoke test of the final product.

9. Estimation of quality assurance

With the help of testing strategy and tools, you can estimate the test effort. Quality assurance depends on an understanding of business requirements, the creation and execution of test cases, the creation of test data, and some contingencies. 

10.Schedule Quality Assurance Activities

It is important to schedule quality assurance because scheduling tells you about when to start the activity, what would be delayed, what is the deadline of an activity.

11. Availability of Resources

Testing should be done with the resources available. This depends on the test environment, testing tools, testing devices, and human resources.

12. Knowing the essentials of a Test Plan

After considering all the factors, it is important to outline the execution of the project. This documentation will be needed that systematically organizes all the planning for the software testing process.

13. Execution

 In the end, the execution of the test plan.