Friday, 14 November 2014

why not test everything?



It is now widely accepted that you cannot test everything in Software Testing. Exhausted testers you will find, but exhaustive testing you will not. Complete Software Testing is neither theoretically, nor practically possible.

Consider a 10 character string that has 280 possible input streams and corresponding outputs. If you executed one test per microsecond it would take approx. 4 times the age of the Universe to test this completely.


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