Laiba Akram

Sep 07, 2022

Testing

Why test?

Testing is done to ensure that your app will work as intended for your end users. Having tests will make your app more robust and less error prone. It is a way to verify that the code is doing what the developers intended.

Code-based testing involves testing out each line of code of a program to identify bugs or errors during the software development process. Specific test cases are checked on the program to see if it performs the functions required.

Moreover, code-based testing can be broken down into structural and static testing.

Software testing arrived alongside the development of software, which had its beginnings just after the second world war. Computer scientist Tom Kilburn is credited with writing the first piece of software, which debuted on June 21, 1948, at the University of Manchester in England. It performed mathematical calculations using machine code instructions.

Debugging was the main testing method at the time and remained so for the next two decades. By the 1980s, development teams looked beyond isolating and fixing software bugs to testing applications in real-world settings. It set the stage for a broader view of testing, which encompassed a quality assurance process that was part of the software development life cycle.

“In the 1990s, there was a transition from testing to a more comprehensive process called quality assurance, which covers the entire software development cycle and affects the processes of planning, design, creation and execution of test cases, support for existing test cases and test environments,” says Alexander Yaroshko in his post on the uTest developer site.

“Testing had reached a qualitatively new level, which led to the further development of methodologies, the emergence of powerful tools for managing the testing process and test automation tools.”