ayman: when to stop testing?

By M Ayman Noor

Principal SQA Engineer

ReliSource Technologies Ltd.

Times up

Stop my speech?

Time’s up Did I express myself clear? Minimize the risk

Risk Minimization

Sufficient Testing Mention all the possible risks Let the stakeholders decide whether

to accept the risk

Complete Testing? Complete testing must mean that, at the

end of testing, you know there are no remaining unknown bugs – Cem Kaner

Vast testing space too many inputs too many combinations too many paths too many places where too many types of

interrupts too many ways to use

Not possible

When to Stop Testing? common factors and constraints

Deadlines: release deadline, testing deadline, etc.Testing budget of the projectCoverage of functionality, code, requirementsAll the planned test cases have been executedKey test cases have been passedResources available and their skillsBug count rateFixes of high priority bugsThe risk in the project is under acceptable limit

False Judgment

Could be…