Monday, March 19, 2012

Role of Database in Software Testing

What is a database? All of us being in the software industry are aware of this but just to reiterate, it is basically an integrated collection of data and it's an integral part of our application. All our application data is stored and fetched from a database. A tester's job can become more interesting if testers have access to the database which plays an important role in Software Quality Testing process and can increase enormously in a small window of QA testing time.

During my experience with an Independent Offshore software testing organization, I have had many opportunities to work on projects wherein our trusted clients had provided us database access. However, you cannot expect every client to lend you access to their databases; but this does not mean that we cannot perform quality testing without it. But, having the database access would surely widen the tester's perspective and would be very certain while performing requirement based testing. Believe me; an easy access to a database makes the whole testing process easier and more importantly efficient. Let's see the following instance wherein database access plays a vital role in QA Testing phase and providing reliable software testing services.

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