Technovation By SKS

Software testing is more and more considered a problematic method toward better quality. Using testing to locate and correct software defects can be an endless process. Bugs cannot be completely ruled out. Just as the complexity barrier indicates: chances are testing and fixing problems may not necessarily improve the quality and reliability of the software. Sometimes fixing a problem may introduce much more severe problems into the system, happened after bug fixes, such as the telephone outage in California and eastern seaboard in 1991. The disaster happened after changing 3 lines of code in the signaling system. In a narrower view, many testing techniques may have flaws. Coverage testing, for example. Is code coverage, branch coverage in testing really related to software quality? There is no definite proof. As early as in [Myers79] , the so-called "human testing" -- including inspections, walkthroughs, reviews -- are suggested as possible alternatives to traditional testin...