2 Effective Approaches to a Program Back-End Testing

Software products have become big and complex. They can perform many different complex operations and are used in almost every field of work, from medicine, commerce and researches in nuclear physics to games and entertainment.

Any Application Can be Divided into 2 Parts:

• front-end;
• back-end.

Users interact with a program front-end and never deal with its back-end. Software back-end comprises sets of data, tables, interrelations between various modules and other aspects that provide proper function of the program and are hidden from the users.

A software testing company claims that the users do not have to know how the things work in order to successfully interact with the program. But any mobile testing, desktop testing and web site testing should involve checking both of the program back-end and front-end. Only in this case high quality of a software product can be assured.

There are many approaches to back-end testing. Automated testing is mostly used during checking of this part of an application.

Many Quality Assurance Experts Believe That the Most Efficient Techniques of Testing a Program Back-End Are:

• structural testing;
• functional testing.

It is wise to apply both of them while testing a program back-end. They may include some similar tests but can reveal different errors.

Source: QATestLab