Software testing has many challenges both in manual testing and automation testing. In general, in manual testing developers, will the builds be passed to the team test or the team will select the build build and will come to ask what the build is about? This is the case in organizations that do not follow the so-called ‘process. Tester is the intermediary between the development team and the customer, dealing with pressure from both sides.
This is not always the case. Testers can sometimes cause a nuisance in a testing process due to their lack of skills. In this post, I will show the challenges when testing is created by tester staff, development staff, testing process and mismanagement decisions.
1) Testing the complete application:
Maybe not? I think not possible. There are millions of test combinations. It is impossible to test each or every combination of manual testing and automation testing. If you try all of these combinations, you will never deliver the product.
2) Misunderstanding of company processes:
Sometimes you don’t pay enough attention to what the company processes are and what their purpose is. There are some misconceptions in the tester profession that they should only be applied to company processes even if these processes are not applicable to their current test scenario. This leads to incomplete and inconsistent application testing.
3) Relationship with developers (Relationship with developers):
This is a great challenge. Require skilled testers to handle this relationship in a positive way and even by completing the work in the way the desired tester. There are simply hundreds of excuses that development teams or testers can make when they disagree with some points. For testers also requires good communication, troubleshooting and analytical skills.
4) Regression testing:
As a project continues to expand, simple regression testing becomes difficult to control. Pressure to handle current function changes, check previous work functions and track errors.
5) Lack of skilled testers (Lack of skilled testers):
I will call this “wrong management decision” while selecting or training testers for project work. These unskilled colleagues can add more chaos than simplify testing work. This results in inadequate, incomplete testing throughout the testing process.
6) Testing always under time constraint:
Hey tester, customer wants to receive this product this weekend, are you ready to finish? When this decision is made by the customer, the tester only focuses on completing the task, not the scope of the test and the quality of the work. There is a large list of tasks that you need to complete within the allotted time. This includes writing, executing tests, automating and reviewing test cases.
7) Which tests to execute first? (Check first):
If you are facing the challenge outlined in point 6, then you will decide which test cases will be conducted and at what priority? Consider which views are more important than others. This requires good experience to work under pressure.
8) Understanding the requirements:
Sometimes the tester is responsible for communicating with customers to understand the requirements. What happens if the tester does not understand the requirements? Can he test the application properly? Of course not! The tester requires good hearing and comprehension.
9) Automation testing:
Many additional challenges – Should automation test work? Do you have the resources and skills for automation? What time does it allow to automate test cases? Automated decisions or manual testing will need to be addressed depending on each project development process.
10) The decision to stop the testing:
When to stop testing? The decision is very difficult. Requires a core evaluation of test processes and the importance of each process.
11) One test team under multiple projects:
Challenging to track each task of multiple projects. Communication challenge. Many times lead to failure of one or all projects.
12) Reuse of Test scripts (Reuse of test scripts):
Application development methods are changing rapidly, making it difficult to manage test tools and test scripts. Reusing test scripts is essential but hard work.
13) Testers focusing on finding easy bugs (Testers focus on finding bugs easily):
If the organization rewards the tester based on the number of errors (a very poor approach to assessing the performance of the tester), some testers only focus on finding errors easily without having to understand the system. system. The deep bugs of functionality are still not noticeable in such testing methods.
14) To cope with attrition (To deal with risk):
Salary increases and benefits make many employees leave the company in a very short time. Management is facing difficult issues to cope with human resource risks. Challenges – Testers require project training from the beginning, complex projects are very confusing, delayed during delivery!
Here are some of the top software testing challenges we face every day. Whether a project succeeds or fails depends largely on how you solve these fundamentals.