Software Testing

Software goes through a cycle of software development stages. A software is envisioned, created, evaluated, fixed and then put to use. To run any software consistently without any failure/bug/error, the most important step is to test the software. This paper points various types ofsoftware testing(manual and automation), various software testing techniques like black box, white box, gray box, sanity, functional testing etc. and software test life cycle models (V-model and W-model). This paper tries to solve the misconceptions of those who think that testing is to bedone only after the coding phase, but in reality it is to be associated with each and every phase of software life cycle models.