Wednesday, December 17, 2014

Testing without any Business Requirement (BRD) or System Requirement Specification (SRS) document.

Many of the companies today follow minimal documentation or sometimes no documentation. This methodology is mostly followed in company's that develop products for its own internal operations where there is no revenue generated from the product developed.

QUESTIONS? YOU MAY THINK ABOUT.
1. Why would a company develop an application which does not generate revenue?
First, let me explain the type of company's that make money out of their Software Products. These are the company's that sell their products to end users, that could be anyone who would like to use their product pays for it.
On the other hand there are organisations which develop applications to run their business. These could be hotels, cab management systems etc.

2. Can testing be carried out in such an organisation?
The answer to this question is "Yes". However, the tester working in such an environment should have a good sense of business logic. However, this also  depends on other factors of the application under test(AUT) such  as the complexity and user friendliness of the AUT.

3. How can a tester start testing in such an organisation?
The tester can initially start with exploratory testing depending on the level of skill he holds. Another option to gain information with respect to the applications functionality is by speaking to the product owners, end users, Business analysts or the application support team.


                          

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