Some Basic Quality Assurance Testing Concepts

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Quality assurance testing is a tool to measure the performance of any business in any market and may range from commercial storage to jewelry shopping or hotel review. The process involves formal and systematic methods of testing to attain a certain standard of quality. The quality of the business should meet the standard level to pass the testing process. Otherwise, the business will fail to perform according to the expectation. The test requires a precise definition and specification of quality, before starting the process. Unless the concept of quality is well defined, it will be difficult to identify the standard level. The testing process involves the same kind of procedure by checking the product or service with respect to certain criteria.

Effective quality assurance testing requires identifying some primary goals and understanding.

• The most important aspect of testing is that you must understand the business which you are testing. If it is a specific function then you must know in details that how it should work.
• You have to identify the limit for pass and fail. This requires a total knowledge of the business system. Without this knowledge, you will not be able to identify the standard for pass and fail.
• The testing procedure must be scientific and methodical. Before starting the process you must layout a plan of testing. It will be better, if you can design test cases prior to going into the process.

• The quality assurance testing should be performed maintaining a consistent schedule. A specific set of tests must be performed at appropriate condition, rather than performing tests at a particular time.
• You must have detail and thorough knowledge about the inherent limitation of the tests. An individual test is not going to measure each and every aspect of the product or service. So, you have to keep in mind while performing the test that which test is for what purpose. Otherwise, you are going to get confused and erroneous results, which will guide the whole testing process into an unsuccessful attempt.

An effective attempt of quality assurance testing involves quite an amount of planning in advance. There should be proper documentation for the whole process. The purpose of test and limit of expectation must be defined properly in this documentation. The theoretical process must be able to identify quality standards, test plans, test scenarios, test cases and expected test results. If anything goes out of the way during the testing procedure, must be carefully identified and noted down. To specify the standard of performance, you can take help from the well known accreditations programs. These programs will also perform the required steps to certify the business as per their program.

A less understood or poorly developed quality assurance testing will be just wastage of time and energy, as the outcome of this test will be erroneous and misleading. So, before going for the test, you must be able to answer these questions properly to yourself.

• What are you going to test?
• From which standpoint you are going to test?
• What are you expecting as a test result?
• How you are going to test?
• What are the restrictions for the test?

The successful test results will generate a scope for improving the business system, by correcting the negative points and improving the positive points to the highest limit.

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Disclamer: This entry is intended to promote our partner StorageMart and some or all participants received compensation.