Summary: This article continues the series on the role of testing in software development and approaches to software testing. Describe automated approaches, load testing, and documented testing. Testing plays a key role in developing great digital products. Without proper testing, the hard work that goes into planning, developing, and releasing a digital product can be wasted. Such errors have become known: It is enough to recall false missile alerts and flight cancellations due to computer system malfunctions. This test report provides proven tips for quality testing digital products.

Documentation testing: where quality begins

Some people may roll their eyes when it comes to testing documentation. It may seem like an ancillary step. However, identifying and fixing bugs before releasing code is a practical approach to software testing. Again, consider, design, and define requirements and standards. These standards continue to be met throughout the product’s life cycle. Then your eye will be able to immediately recognize contradictions, inconsistencies and misunderstandings. Documentation review checks whether all product-related documentation corresponds to how the product works. Ensure that deliverables, improvements, and changes are properly documented during this process. This is a comment from Alex, his leader in tech who has been working on improving delivery to customers during the company’s transformation: “Once you start creating the document, you need to make room for it and build in specific triggers in the delivery process: who needs to update, when, and under what conditions. Sadly, using a haphazard approach to documentation can result a large amount of unrelated documentation. So over time, you will intuitively follow a pattern like this: If an article hasn’t been updated in a year, it’s probably best not to rely on it. “We spent a lot of time with our clients implementing this document culture framework. Its main principle is to add description and documentation resources for each new feature. That means showing your team what buttons this new feature pushes. Product and engineering teams should review what is being migrated with new features. And the documentation is a safe way to explain this. Next, you need to decide who will be responsible for and implement this new feature. Place it on the paper. Then, be sure to include this description in your product requirements document and, as a final step, in your technical documentation.” In summary, documentation testing can definitely be incorporated into your regular software testing approach.