General – Software Quality and Testing

Tools for V&V

Verification and validation has existed for a while now, this is good for us because people have created many tools to make our jobs way easier. Testing nowadays is much easier and less exhausting than before and I will tell you of some of the most popular tools used for verification and validation. These toolsContinue reading “Tools for V&V”

Software Testing

The software testing process, although not exactly the same for every methodology, can be generalized to contain the main and most important points that help us have an effective testing experience. First we need to define the test strategy and test plan. Some of the things you can use to describe your project’s testing scopeContinue reading “Software Testing”

Software Review

Software review is an extremely important technique used to assure the quality, functionality, and other features of your software. Unlike many of the other techniques for assuring quality that I have talked about in this blog, software review doesn’t follow an exact formula or a standard. I believe it gives you more freedom and inContinue reading “Software Review”

V&V

In order to understand verification and validation of software we must first define it. According to the IEEE, V&V is the process of determining whether: Requirements for a system are complete and correct. Products of each development phase fulfill the requirements and conditions imposed by the previous phase. Final systems comply with specified requirements. InContinue reading “V&V”

Models and Standards

In a past blog I talked about software quality and how we can define it. Tl;dr quality depends on what the company and/or programmers believe is quality. Everyone will have a different vision of quality, but today we will talk about models and standards. Software quality models were created to solve this ambiguity problem. WithContinue reading “Models and Standards”

Defining Software Quality

Assuring product quality is crucial for every serious business. The problem with software is that it is harder to define quality than it is with physical products. Let’s take a shirt for example. How can we say that a shirt is of good quality? Well our shirt is comfortable, it’s durable, and it has aContinue reading “Defining Software Quality”