Validation Analyst Training Online

• Quality Assurance or QA refers to the planned and systematic way of monitoring the quality of process which is followed to produce a quality product.
• Quality Control or QC is concerned with the quality of the product. QC finds the defects and suggests improvements.
• Software Testing is the process of ensuring that product which is developed by the developer meets the user requirement. The motive to perform testing is to find the bugs and make sure that they get fixed.

Verification is defined as the process of evaluating steps which is followed up to development phase to determine whether they meet the specified requirements for that stage.

Validation is the process of evaluating product during or at the end of the development process to determine whether product meets specified requirements.

• Verification is static testing where as Validations is dynamic testing.
• Verification evaluates plans, documents, requirements and specifications, where as Validation evaluates product.
• Verification takes place before validation.
• Verification inputs are checklist, issues list, walkthroughs and inspection, where as in Validation testing of actual product.
• Verification output is set of documents, plans, specifications and requirement documents where as in Validation actual product is output.

• Purchasing the license of tool (QTP, selenium, QC, LR) 
• Lack of skilled Tester to run the tool
• Expectation that automated tests will find a lot of new defects
• Maintenance of automated tests
• Technical problems of tools

• Application should be stable enough to be tested. 
• Testing always under time constraint
• Understanding requirements, Domain knowledge and business user perspective understanding
• Which tests to execute first? 
• Testing the Complete Application
• Regression testing
• Lack of skilled testers
• Changing requirements
• Lack of resources, tools and training

Automation testing is preferred over manual testing because of the following reasons:

• Frequency of use of test case
• Automated script run much faster than manual execution
• Reusability of Automation Script
• Adaptability of test case for automation
• Exploitation of automation tool.