Participation of Testing to Attain a Degree of Quality of Software

Software quality is the characteristic of the software that defines how well the software meets the customer requirements, business requirements, coding standards etc. It can be divided into two categories: Software Functional Quality: characteristics that define how well the software meets functional requirements, and how well it satisfies the end-user. Software Non-Functional Quality: characteristics that define how well structural requirements are met that support the delivery of functional requirements. It is usually related to software code and internal structure.Testing is first step towards software quality this paper depicts how testing helps to measure the software quality as objective of testing is to find the defect and get them fixed as early as possible. This paper also describes how can we achieve quality assurance through use of selenium IDE tool and how communication take place between developer and tester through bugzilla tool? The main focus of this paper will be on the functional testing through the use of ORANGE HRM application. Quality assurance main focus on preventing defects or bug in the system and testing is a part of quality assurance.