The top five software-testing problems and how to avoid them
If you make a list of some of the most important traps in testing, you will realize that in many cases the problems are nontechnical. More often than not, they are consequences of the test process itself, including the overall
composition of the test team and whether the company follows well-integrated processes for formal requirements handling and change management. An informal survey of the relative cost of testing software compared with the
overall cost of developing software gives a range of estimates, from 10% in smaller organizations to 70% in some larger and mature organizations.
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The results indicate the huge discrepancy in the level of importance that different
organizations give to testing. Some of these problems are more common to younger organizations; others are pitfalls that anyone can encounter.
The following case stories and suggested remedies can help you overcome real-life software-testing problems.
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| Confused test team |
Test-maintenance failure |
| Manual testing |
Uncertainty principle |
| selecting the right tests |
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