Software Testing

Finding defects is only one third of the tester’s job done

All software has bugs and as companies look at measurement of the software testing teams often the focus is on the number of bugs found during testing. Yes, this is a right measure, no doubt about it, but is this the only measure that should be used? No.

Finding bugs is only one third of the job done. The other one third is removing the bugs and the rest is making the software better.

It would have been really easy if quality was like salt or pepper all you had to then do, was sprinkle enough of it onto an application right before it gets exposed to your customer. But it is not that simple quality is an ingredient that has to be mixed in right measure right from the word go. That is, it must be a part of the entire software development life cycle (SDLC) from inception through implementation. As such, responsibility for quality falls squarely on the shoulders of the application development manager but it is equally a responsibility of the QA manager as well. In short finding and driving for the fix is both the developer’s and tester’s responsibility, all the while delivering inputs that improves the process.