Bug-Free Software – A Myth Or Reality?

Imagine that you have successfully developed software or application, did exceptional efforts to ensure its quality, and eventually, you launch it into the market. Wow-what a perfect situation it is for companies to daydream about. But what if your application just starts crashing whenever a pool of audience needs to utilize it? Or what if your developed software is not what users have expected it to be in terms of security and responsiveness? Ouch! This second situation may have given you goosebumps, correct?

Humans are creatures that learn from their errors. In the enterprise world, entrepreneurs and business leaders are really overconfident that they can never create a mistake. However, there’s no such thing that has not been fixed and there’s no such human who has never done any mistakes in his/her career. Likewise is with the software development industry. Aiming for perfection and not being able to acquire what was anticipated, lead many professionals to a state of disappointment. In the software development industry, competition is continuously becoming intense. Companies increase to cope up with this fierce competition with all people can do and people have. They try to develop products that suffice the users’ expectations but unfortunately fails and are reluctant to admit the fact that their own product development problems have caused the failure. 

The software development life-cycle involves a variety of stages. Every stage has its own particular operational conditions. To assure that each phase is accurately being treated tech firms satisfy their software testing teams to assure the quality of the product being developed. For this purpose, testers utilize a variety of resources to fasten the whole testing method, including issue tracking tools as a standard method to follow various types of defects in the software. But still, some bugs are left or skipped as tools are also operated with the command of people, hence 100% bug coverage is impossible. 

How do we categorize bugs in software development?

Bugs or defects are categorized into 5 significant categories;

Critical Defects – The core purposes of the system have lost or the system cannot run at all.

Serious Defects – Defects that alter basic purposes and the system cannot operate regularly.

Moderate Defects – This defect creates the system to produce inaccurate, inconsistent, or incomplete results.

Minor defect –  Defects just affect a few cases.

Exterior Defects – The defect is only linked to the interface and display of the application.

What makes up a software defect-free, to a great extent?

When you construct a house, go for purchasing a car, or any other luxury piece you first make a plan about how you will purchase or build, what resources will be needed to do so, how much budget will be needed, etc. It suggests that you perform the entire homework to buy or construct something. Then why you show carelessness when it gets to the development of such a significant product like software applications. 

Below is a list of significant aspects that must be made as a roadmap for generating a bug-free product, certainly not 100% bug-free but the decrease of bugs up to a great extent can be made possible. 

Set realistic goals 

It is unrealistic to assume developers to write error-free code. Try not to concentrate on error-free code. Always concentrate on presenting early adopters with products with good characteristics that can solve their problems or else present them with a collection of tools particularly issue tracking tools to identify errors from the early stages of the SDLC, so that they’ll be capable to provide solutions for its fixtures. 

Avoid vague functional specifications 

Typically a software product comes up with a variety of errors because of the gap between what characteristics the software provides and the characteristics that are expected by the users. This dilemma must be solved by building precise technical or functional specifications before you ask your technical team to begin coding. 

Consider Quality over the cost

 Before you carry out a cost-benefit examination of your software product, set yourself in the shoes of your targeted audience i.e determine whether you want to purchase cheap software or expensive software that works 99% of the time with the same strength and responsiveness. To have a smooth user experience, to engage as many users as possible, and to reduce maximum errors you have to invest in particular issue tracking and defect managing tools. They might cost you big in their implementation but their advantages would be for longer-term and infinite. 

Excessive Testing 

Why do I require testing? You might have this question in your brain. Well, think software testing as a power booster or MULTIVITAMIN for your software products and applications. Software testing can never be neglected. You can never think it the first slice of your bread – that you normally skip eating. 

Testing is essential for software strength because it helps in getting it possible for an organization to constantly keep up a balance between consumer expectations and their overall productivity aims. Testing makes sure that a product is well-reviewed, bugs have been examined at their best, and those bugs have been fixed with possible solutions. Usually, it takes quite a long for manual testing teams to assure that a software product is free of errors and glitches and is unexploitable by cybercriminals in the future. But with the improvements in technology, the market is now overflooded with proper defect management devices and issue tracking tools that help organizations to get relieved of this barrier as well. Testing at each level and each stage of the software development life-cycle assure that maximum defects have been dealt with it.

Nothing in this world is perfect including software products and applications. TestUnity experts know that they require rigorous testing before they are exposed to users and the market. Let TestUnity experts help you to make your products defect-free as much as possible.

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