All software related people and
industries face a lot of challenges during the project making and its
execution. So, I would like to say, as a software tester, software test
manager, software test engineer or software test leader, never ever get
surprised when you face challenges in your software testing careers.
Some challenges in software testing
are as follows:
- Communication
gap between the Developers and Testers: Developers did not communicate with testers
what they build. Wake up testers - If developers didn't communicate about what
this build is about, ask them before testing.
- Complete Testing is never possible: Remember,
for any web application or desktop application or mobile application – complete
testing is never possible. Testing is always done on requirements and sampling
basis. For testing, selection of test data needs good proficiency and good efficiency.
- Don’t Take Personally: Sometimes, developers
and testers fight with each other on bugs and take the things personally rather
than professionally. It becomes a major challenge for project stake holders.
- Repeat of Testing: Regression testing
becomes more challenge for software tester. For these kind of situation both
testers and developers need to work together to do a proper impact analysis.
- Lack of Times: In most of the
organizations, at the time of effort estimation, testing team is not involved. Testing
team is always asked to test the build in a particular time.
- Lack of Requirements: if detailed requirements
are not discussed with you, ask for detailed requirements. Never ever assume anything
and don’t compromise with this.
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