I recently conducted a seminar at Technology First’s Taste of IT conference. During my presentation, "Exterminate Your Bugs to Lower Software Costs: Top 5 things you can do right now!", there were some surprising results that we collected from the audience. Let's go over the top 5 ways to exterminate your bugs as well as our findings. (Download a copy of the presentation)
Even the best software developers are not immune to having bugs in their code. Therefore, software testing is a critical aspect of the software development life cycle.
Software testers are responsible for ensuring the functionality and usability of software programs and applications. Simply put, software testers make sure programs and applications do what they are created to do.