When Is The Right Time To End The Testing Process

Testing is an endless process, but still, there must be a point where we should stop testing. The most common factors to consider when deciding to stop testing are:

1.Project deadline

2.Percentage of the passing of test cases

3.Rate and test budget.

4.Coverage of code functionalities, requirements etc.

5.Least accepted bug

6.Duration of beta and alpha test periods.

The ace goal of these factors should be outlined in the initial test planning phase of the project, conducted and agreed upon by the customer as well as the entire team. The test engineer will then keep an update on the test metric to meet the goal set by the entire team.

Testing Metrics

Testing metrics are a better way to help testers monitor progress and make more effective decisions when their project is at stake. Important metrics that the examiner can monitor include:

1. Percent Completion: Total number of cases executed / total number of test cases.

2. Percentage of test cases passed: Total number of test cases passed / Number of test cases executed

3. Percentage of test cases failed: Total number of failed test cases/number of test cases executed.

Typically, a test engineer will set a limited number of test cases to run in a single test case instead of testing them all at once. This practice makes it easy to record and assess numbers in addition to software product quality.

Testing Metrics Interpreting

The decision to stop the test can be made analytically using data obtained from the matrix. A test engineer may stop testing when:

There are three ways to illustrate this, based on the passing ratio of failed cases:

1.Exit when all test cases pass

2.Exit when the cases of the passed examination reach their minimum limit.

3.Exit when unsuccessful test cases reach their maximum limits.

Exhausting all the test cases for execution during a test run

More advanced metrics that can be considered in the decision of when to stop testing are:

1. The average time between failures (MTBF): Can be accessed by recording the average operating time before the system failure.

2. Defect density: Measured by recording defects related to the size of the software.

3. Coverage Metrics: It Can be calculated by recording the percentage of instructions executed.

Several defects with their severity

If an examiner can decide to stop drawing any of the above situations. The general purpose for anyone involved in the project would be to minimize the risk of catastrophic errors occurring when the product is released.

Conclusion

Software testing is an endless activity that cannot be taken to an exit point but it is very important to know about the above-defined conditions and avoid recurring patterns to complete a successful project.

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