2. Software Quality and Testing Overview

This chapter is a quick synopsis of the fundamentals of software quality and testing. For those of you who are developers or new to testing, this is a crash course (but by no means complete) in testing software. If you are an experienced software testing professional, I suggest skimming through the chapter. By the end of this chapter, you should have a good understanding of software quality, the goals of each type of software testing, and various testing techniques, and how they can be applied depending on the overall Software Development Lifecycle (SDLC) process in use.

Software Quality

A solid understanding of software quality is necessary to be effective at software testing. So, just what is software ...

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