What are software testing objectives and purpose?

Software Testing  has different goals and objectives.The major objectives of Software testing are as follows:

• Finding Defects  which may get created by the programmer while developing the software.
• Gaining confidence in and providing information about the level of quality.
• To prevent defects in future releases.
• To make sure that the end result meets the client requirments.
• To ensure that it satisfies the BRS that is Business Requirement Specification and SRS that is System Requirement Specifications.
• To gain the confidence of the customers by providing them a quality product.

Purpose of Software Testing:-  is to give a product to the client that is bug free and working up to the expectation of the client as per his requirement.

Objectives of Software Testing :-

1. It is very important to have good test coverage in order to test the software application completely and make it sure that it’s performing well and as per the specifications.

2. Test cases should be designed with maximum possibilities of finding the errors or bugs. The test cases should be very effective.  Higher the number of the defects reported the more effective are the test cases.

3. Another main objective of Software Testing is to deliver the product to the customer bug free so that customer can operate on that without any complaints.In order to make it possible tester should know as how the customers are going to use this product and accordingly they should write down the test scenarios and design the test cases. This will help a lot in fulfilling all the customer’s requirements.

4. Good Coverage is yet another objective as good coverage means that the testing has been done to cover the various areas like functionality of the application, compatibility of the application with the OS, hardware and different types of browsers, performance testing to test the performance of the application and load testing to make sure that the system is reliable and should not crash or there should not be any blocking issues. It also determines that the application can be deployed easily to the machine and without any resistance.