From the course: CISSP Cert Prep (2021): 8 Software Development Security

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Software testing

Software testing

From the course: CISSP Cert Prep (2021): 8 Software Development Security

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Software testing

- [Instructor] Throughout the software development process, developers and product managers must engage in frequent testing to ensure that the finished product will function properly and meet business requirements. There are two main activities that occur during software testing, model validation, and verification. Software model validation ensures that the software produced by a development effort is meeting the original business requirements. Basically, software model validation answers the question, are we building the right software? Software verification occurs throughout the development process and it consists of tests that verify that the software functions properly. Software verification is answering the question, are we building the software right? As developers get ready to release code to production, they must move beyond the small scale tests that are typical during the development process. They then must ensure…

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