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Failure refers to the inability of the software product that does not perform as per the specified performance requirements. In the field of software testing sometimes the software product may produce wrong results under certain circumstances.

 

What is failure testing?

 

Failure testing is analyzing the failed product test to see what went wrong in the testing process. Basically, it is an analysis of the software product which allows developers to fix the errors and prevent them from recurring. This testing helps the team members to inspect the failed tests in order to detect the root cause of the failure. 

 

From where the failure and defects arise in the software testing process:

  • Failure and defects would arise in the specification, design, and implementation of the software product. 
  • The defects would arise in the environmental conditions also. 
  • Errors would arise in the use of the system.

 

Failure and defects would arise in the specification, design, and implementation of the software product : 

 

In failure testing, the specifications are basically written documents that describe the functional and non-functional requirements of the software product through prose and pictures. There is no need for having code for testing specifications. Almost 50% of all the bugs and defects present in software products are because of the mistakes present in the specification. So testing the specifications first, can save lots of time and cost in the next stages of software testing. 

 

The defects would arise in the environmental conditions also:

 

The errors would arise in the wrong setup of the testing environment which results in the form of defects and errors. As per the analytics, it has been observed that nearly 45% of the tester’s time is consumed by environmental issues. This will have a bad impact on the quality and productivity of the software. Hence for testing, proper test environments are required for the quality and delivering on time of the software product. 

 

Errors would arise in the use of the system:

 

Most importantly, inappropriate knowledge of the software product may lead to bad results. Software testers sometimes may not have knowledge of the functionalities of the product and hence while testing there might be chances of defects and failure. Another reason would be the lack of understanding of the functionalities by the developers. If the developer does not have an understanding of the product’s functionality then the features they develop may not match the specifications. So, this will result in a defect or failure of the software products. 

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