15 Different Types of Software Testing Methodologies

Software Testing is a set of activities conducted with the intent of finding errors in the software. Testing assesses the quality of the software product. It is a process that should be started from the development process.

Alpha Testing

It is the first stage of testing and will be performed among the developers and testing team. Unit Testing, Integration Testing and System Testing when combined are known as alpha testing.

Beta Testing

Beta Testing is also known as pre-release testing which is conducted after alpha testing has been successfully performed. Beta test versions of a software are ideally distributed to a wide audience on the web to give the program a real world test and to provide a preview of the next release.

Smoke Testing

Smoke Test consists of minimal attempts to operate the software, designed to determine whether there are any basic problems that will prevent it from working. It’s useful for build-verification tests.

Regression Testing

It’s the testing done after bug fixing modifications of a system component or a group of related units to ensure that the modification is working correctly and is not damaging or imposing other modules to produce unexpected results.

Sanity Testing

Sanity Testing determines whether it is reasonable to proceed with further testing.

Ad-Hoc Testing

It is a testing phase where the tester tries to break the system by randomly trying the system functionality.

Stress Testing

Stress Testing is a type of testing conducted to evaluate a system or component at or beyond the limits of its specified requirements to determine the load under-which it fails and how.

Compatibility Test

Compatibility Testing tests whether software is compatible with other elements of a system with which it should operate.

Monkey Testing

Testing a system or an application on the fly is known as Monkey Testing.

Gorilla Testing

It’s a type of testing that test’s a particular functionality or module heavily.

Exploratory Testing

Testers have to understand the application first by exploring the application and based on this understand, they should come up with the test scenarios.

Exhaustive Testing

Testing which covers all combinations of input values and pre-conditions for an element of the software under test.

Load Testing

Load Testing helps to identify the maximum operating capacity of an application.

Performance Testing

Performance Testing is a type of testing intended to determine the responsiveness, reliability and/or scalability of a system under a given work load.

Dependency Testing

This type of testing examines an application’s requirements for pre-existing software initial states and configuration in-order to maintain proper functionality.