Question

Explain why testing management is iterative and why activities must be continually reassessed during the Software Development Life Cycle.

Answer 1

Testing management is iterative and activities must be reassessed in SDLC  because :

• It is a part of Iteragtive development.(A methodology in software development life cycle.)
• Iteative development is a way of breaking down the software development of a large application into smaller chunks
• In this feature code is designed, developed and tested in repeated cycles. With each iteration, additional features can be designed, developed and tested until there is a fully functional software application ready to be deployed to customers.
• The purpose of iterative testing is with each iteration you can test on different data sets so that you can conclude about reliability and correctness of your software and It allows more flexibility for changes.
• Activities must be reassessed because there can be unforeseen problems that don't surface until development begins but after development to tackle the problem is very costly sometimes so It is better to reassessed the activities repeatedly.
• In the iterative process, each development cycle produces an incomplete but deployable version of the software. The first iteration implements a small set of the software requirements, and each subsequent version adds more requirements. The last iteration contains the complete requirement set.