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Black-Box Testing vs White-Box Testing

The main differences between black-box testing (BBT) and white-box testing (WBT) are in such aspects: Objects The tested objects may overlap sometimes. WBT is commonly used to test not very

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Direct And Indirect Quality Measures

To reach the quality assurance objects it is necessary to identify where we are and what we should do to reach these objects. To get such information, objective assessment using

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Comparison of Verification & Validation and QA View Points

Most quality assurance activities that are carried out directly in the software development process can be classified as verification activities, while quality assurance activities which are associated with the technical

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Quality Assurance Activities In Software Processes

In incremental and iterative processes the overall process can be considered as consisting of some increments or iterations, with each of them following equal mini phases corresponding to those in

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Significance of Education and Training During Software Development

Teaching and training provide people-based solutions to eliminate the source of software bugs. Software practitioners notice for a long time that the human factor is the most important indicator in

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Software Bug Handling Process And Tools

Software bug handling is a significant area of quality assurance activities. At the time of software testing the developers who correct identified software bugs are generally not the identical as

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Safety Assurance And Failure Scope

Note: the article was updated in September 2018. Safety-critical systems are those, that can cause injury or even loss of user’s life in case of failure. Such systems can damage

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Software Fault Tolerance Methods

Software fault tolerance methods initiate from fault tolerance designs in traditional hardware systems that require higher levels of dependability, reliability and availability. In such systems, spare areas and backup units

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Definitions and Meaning: Error, Fault, Failure and Defect

Note: the article was updated in March 2019. The assurance of continuous software functioning is based on the absence of all possible errors, defects, failures and faults, commonly named in

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Main Software Testing Techniques

Inspection is the most generally accepted static method for error identification and removal. There are many other different static software testing methods: boundary value analysis software fault trees algorithm analysis

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What Is Software Bug Seeding?

Note: the article was updated in September 2018. Bug seeding or bebugging is a technique that was developed to evaluate the number of software issues resident in the software product.

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