Robust Testing Processes a key to achieving Six Sigma standards

Software Development is nothing different. When it comes to building a software product, it has to go through various testing processes to meet the product quality standards.

First comes the obvious manual testing process, followed by automated testing practices.

Next comes the unit testing step. Unit testing is a testing standard which performs code validation against the code block under the current execution flow whenever any new code changes happens in the product. This validation check is performed at the code build step itself i.e. compile time. Product should have 100% code coverage including error and exceptional scenarios if applicable. Sometimes this process is also termed as static code analysis. There are several out of the box unit testing frameworks available in the market like Spock and J Unit

Finally comes the automation testing. Automation testing is meant to simulate the real world product behaviour by testing the product expected output against a given input programmatically. This should run on a particular frequency or whenever there are any code changes pushed. It should also notify the admin with the automated test report with the number of test cases passed and failed along with description. This ensures that the product functionalities are working as expected. This validation is performed on deployed test server instances at runtime. There are several out of the box unit testing frameworks available in the market like Selenium and Cucumber

With all this in place the product is considered to be compliant with Six sigma standard.

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Six Sigma Standard: link

Vikram Singh Chouhan