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Is Software Testing Really Needed?
I'm a student working on my B.E(CS) and my question is the following:
Is testing in the software field needed?
If we create a software with great care, then why should we test?
After testing can ...
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How come verification does not include actual testing?
Having read a lot about this topic --- such as on this Software Testing Fundamentals site on verification and validation and Software Testing and Quality Assurance: Theory and Practice by Naik and ...
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Functional testing in the verification
Yesterday my question How come verification does not include actual testing? created a lot of controversy, yet did not reveal the answer for related and very important question: does black box ...
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Verification of requirements question
Doing a lot of reading about V&V, I would need to clarify the following.
A lot of definitions (less formal ones found in books) define verification like that:
Verification: The software should ...
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Ensure data entered by users adjusts to what actually is
This is more of a usability issue I'd say, looking of suggestions on it.
I have a system that depends on the data entered by the users to be correct, as in the address exists, the name is correct, ...
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Validation and Verification explanation (Boehm) - I cannot understand its point
Hopefully my last thread about V&V as I found the B.Boehm is text which I just do not understand well (likely my technical English is not that good).
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Why some consider static analysis a testing and some do not?
Preparing myself also to ISTQB certification, I found they call static analysis actually as a static testing, while some engineering book distinct between static analysis and testing, which is the ...
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How to apply verification and validation on the following example
I have been following verification and validation questions here with my colleagues, yet we are unable to see the slight differences, probably caused by language barrier in technical English.
An ...
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System testing - making sure the system conforms to specification. Validation? [closed]
After weeks of research I have nearly completed my thesis, yet I am unable to clear up my confusion contained in all previous threads here (and in many books):
During system testing, we check the ...
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Verification & Validation books
So I need some help with Verification & Validation of software. So I know the definitions of both but ... I can't really find any real entry level books about the process from setting up the ...
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Are Verification and Validation both Quality Assurance and Quality Control?
Having read a book I found a note that verification and validation can be both quality assurance and quality control. I cannot see how it can be quality assurance because both just provide evidence ...
