What are the different types of Software Testing?

We, as testers are aware of the various Kinds of Software Testing such as Functional Testing, Non-Functional Testing, Automation Testing, Agile Testing, and their sub-types, etc.. Each of us would have encountered various kinds of testing on our testing journey. We might have heard a few and we might have worked on a few, but not everybody has knowledge concerning all the testing types.

Let’s Take a Look at various types of software testing:

It’s the most frequent kind of testing employed in the Software industry. The objective of this testing is to identify all possible issues or flaws before discharging it into the market or to the consumer. Alpha Testing is carried out at the end of the software development stage but before the Beta evaluation.

Still, minor layout changes might be made as a result of such testing. Alpha Testing is conducted on the developer’s site. An in-house digital user environment can be made for this kind of testing.

Acceptance testing Acceptance Test is performed by the client and verifies if the end to end stream of the machine is according to the company requirements or not and when it’s as per the needs of this end-user.

The client accepts the applications only when all the features and functionalities work as expected. It is the last period of the testing, and the software goes into production. Besides, this is called User Acceptance Testing (UAT).

Ad-hoc Testing The name itself indicates that this testing is performed on an Ad-hoc foundation i.e. with no reference to the test situation and without any program or documentation set up for such kind of testing. This testing aims to find the defects and break the application by implementing any flow of the application or some other arbitrary performance.

Ad-hoc Testing is a casual method of finding defects and can be carried out by anybody in the project. It’s challenging to identify defects with no test case but sometimes it’s possible that flaws discovered during ad-hoc testing might not have been diagnosed with existing test cases.

Accessibility testing the aim of Access Testing is to determine whether the applications or program is available for handicapped individuals or not. Here, disability means deaf, color blind, emotionally disabled, blind, old age, and other disabled groups.

Different checks are performed such as font size for visually handicapped, color and contrast for color blindness, etc..Beta Testing is an official kind of Software Testing which is carried out by the client. It is done in the Real Environment before releasing the product to the marketplace for the real end-users.

Beta Testing is carried out to make sure there aren’t any major failures in the software or product and it fulfills the business requirements via an end-user view. Beta Testing is powerful when the customer accepts the software.

Ordinarily, this testing is typically performed by end-users or other people. It is the final testing done prior to releasing an application for commercial purposes. Normally, the Beta version of the software or product released is limited to a certain number of consumers in a specific area. So end-user actually utilizes the applications and shares the feedback to the company.

Back-end Testing Whenever an input or information is entered on the back-end program, it stores in the database and also the testing of these databases is known as Database Testing or Backend Testing. Database Testing involves testing table structure, schema, stored process, data arrangement, and so on.

In Back-end Testing GUI isn’t involved, testers are directly connected to the database with appropriate accessibility and testers can easily verify data by running a few queries on the database. There can be issues identified as data reduction, deadlock, data corruption, etc during this back-end testing and these issues are critical to mending until the system goes live into the production environment.

It’s a subtype of Compatibility Testing (which is explained below) and can be performed by the testing team. Browser Compatibility Testing is done for internet applications and it ensures that the software can run together with the blend of browser and operating system.

This type of testing also supports whether internet application runs on all versions of browsers or not.8) Backward Compatibility TestingIt’s a form of testing which validates whether the newly developed applications or upgraded software works well with the older variant of the surroundings or not.

Backward Compatibility Testing checks whether the new version of the software works nicely with document structure created by an older version of this software; it also works nicely with data tables, data files, data structure created by the old version of that software.

If any of the computer software is updated then it must work well in addition to the previous version of that software.

Black Box Testing Internal system layout is not considered in this kind of testing. Tests are based upon needs and functionality. Detailed information concerning the benefits, disadvantages, and kinds of Black box viewing can be seen here.

This type of testing assesses the behavior of the program at the boundary level. Boundary Value Testing is done for checking if defects exist in border values. Boundary Value Testing is used for analyzing a different assortment of numbers.

There is an upper and lower boundary for each range and testing is done on those boundary values.If testing demands a test assortment of figures from 1 to 500 then Boundary Value Testing is performed on values at 0, 1, 2, 499, 500 and 501.