In-house Debugging

Program testing is a painstaking procedure but an essential part of the total quality assurance process. Before trialling and again before mastering, software should be desk-tested, checked with test data and tested for how modules integrate together. functional testing. Debugging is a continual cyclical process and happens in tandem with the production process but towards the end of the production process, after all the assets are integrated into the program, a sufficient period, two-weeks, say, is required to test the program for bugs. This entails going through the program systematically and along as many routes and through as many permutations as time allows. Functionally testing the program at this stage is called alpha testing. The following guidelines should be observed.

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