Work also carried out towards the end of last year by Benchmark Research revealed that four out of every 10 businesses canvassed for its study, The State of Software Testing in the UK , did not plan to test their IT projects before they were launched. IT is increasingly making the difference between business success and failure. Web-based applications generate revenue round the clock. Most of the major online share-dealing services experienced significant downtime last year because of software errors. Attitudes towards testing, and in particular towards automated testing, are improving.
Testing is the most important technique in assuring the quality of software.
If an error is present in a delivered application, the consequential loss amounts to many times the cost of actually repairing the software. Regular testing during development gives the project manager firm information on which to base plans and predictions for the remainder of the project,' he said. But testing is not just about checking the functional correctness of an application. Load and performance testing are just as critical as functional accuracy in many applications. Users perceive slow software as dead software.