The tester's biggest challenge is replicating every potential situation that a customer might encounter. For example, some areas of SAP require specific data to gain access to other areas, Zaruba says. Our SAP server cannot even get to some of these areas because it doesn't have the same data requirements. For the most part, though, we can usually reproduce similar situations in different areas. A Growing Field From Zaruba's perspective, the software testing field is still growing.
Many software houses have yet to implement a quality assurance team.
Those places will either have to put a quality assurance staff in place or lose ground in their market.