When Should Testing Start in the Development Process? – Complete Guide Neeraj Mishra The Crazy Programmer
Typically speaking, developing software is a long series of stages that starts with requirements gathering to development to testing , to final release. Each stage requires the respective members to contribute to the final development of the product in their own capacity. The business analyst’s job is to collect requirements from the client and validate their feasibility with a technical architect. The technical architect studies the whole environment and performs the impact analysis of placing a new solution in it. Based on feasibility, they may recommend changes in the requirements. After long discussions and to and fro of requirements, the development of the product begins. Then the development team faces its own challenges. They encounter unforeseen events while building the software that may require either updating the design or a change in the requirements themselves. Then the next stage of testing arrives when the product is tested against different criteria. Even this stage ma...