Quality is not only for handcrafts and arts, it is also involved in software engineering. Apparently, quality might be something quite immeasurable, but in reality, there are several ways to measure it in software. To accomplish this, there are mainly two methods for testing quality: defect and attributes. The latter being the most popular.
The defects approach is focused on determining the quality by counting the amount of defects, failure or lack of requirements. They are measured by their severity, likeliness to happen, and damage implications of the defect.
On the other hand, the attributes method focuses more on features and development quality itself. This method takes into consideration five main software characteristics:
- Effectiveness
- Efficiency
- Satisfaction
- Safety
- Usability
Each one of them provides an insight on how each category performs throughout runtime process.
Software Quality Testing is one of the most important steps before releasing a new product. This phase marks the success of the product, because the testers are commonly the end user.
