Conventional testing also known as the Traditional approach of software testing involves a series of activities that aim to identify the defects in the software and ensures that the software meets the specified requirements. The article focuses on discussing Conventional testing in detail.

What is Conventional Testing?

Conventional testing is defined as traditional testing where the main aim is to check whether all the requirements stated by the user are achieved.

• The difference between conventional testing and other testing approach is that it concentrates on checking all the requirements given by the user rather than following a software development life cycle.
• Conventional testing mainly focuses on functional testing.
• This testing is being performed by a dedicated team of software testers.

Stages of Conventional Testing

Conventional testing follows a sequential approach. It consists of various stages. Such as

1. Planning

Planning is the first stage of conventional testing. This stage consists of planning regarding the objective of testing developing a complete test plan and resources that will be required for performing testing.

2. Requirement Analysis

Software Requirements are being analyzed in this phase. These requirements help to identify the scope of testing and risks and for the preparation of test cases.

3. Design

In this stage, test cases are designed. If the test cases are successful it means that test cases are achieved. If not test cases are failed to achieve.

4. Execution

Execution is the process where test cases are executed. The errors encountered during execution are documented.

5. Reporting

In reporting phase, all the documented errors are sent to the development team for fixing.

6. Retesting

Retesting is the stage where all the test cases are performed again. It checks whether all the failed test cases meet. All the requirements specified by the user are achieved.

7. Release

In the last stage, the software is released for the users. It is verified that all the requirements stated by the user or client are successfully working before the release of the software product.

Types of Conventional Testing

1. Unit Testing

Unit Testing is defined as a type of testing where the various modules and units are being tested individually. Unit testing makes sure that each individual component of the system works well and eventually checks whether all the requirements stated by clients are achieved successfully.

2. Integration Testing

Integration Testing is defined as a type of testing where multiple modules or components are tested together in order to check that they work accordingly once integrated with each other. It makes sure that interaction and communication between different modules work well.

3. Performance Testing

Performance Testing is defined as a type of testing that checks for performance-related parameters for a software product. Performance testing helps to find out the loopholes in the system and improve performance.

4. Acceptance Testing

Acceptance Testing is defined as a type of testing that is used to check the requirements according to the user’s point of view. It makes sure that all requirements specified by the user are achieved.

5. Regression Testing

Regression Testing is defined as a type of testing in which test cases are executed again in order to check that the changes made are being fixed and the system is working accordingly.

Benefits of Conventional Testing

1. Cost Effective: Conventional Testing is cost-effective as manual testing is being used. Manual testing requires less financial investment as compared to automation testing.
2. Flexible: Conventional testing has the advantage of flexibility. Manual testing has the ability to adopt the changes that take place while testing the product.
3. Testing of Non-functional Requirements also: Manual testing can test functional as well as non-functional requirements such as accessibility, and usability which is different from automation testing.
4. Understanding User Experience more effectively: Conventional Testing makes use of manual testing which helps to understand the user experience more effectively as the manual tester can test the requirements with multiple scenarios.
5. Provides better communication between testers and developers: Manual testing allows better communication between testers, developers, and other clients regarding issues and wrong outputs.

Limitations of Conventional Testing

1. Time-consuming: Conventional Testing can be time-consuming as with manual testing it can take more time for large applications and accordingly delay further deployment process of the project.
2. Subjective: The manual tester performing the testing can have their own views and opinions which can in turn result in the quality of testing that is being performed.
3. Repetitive: Manual testing can lead to repetition by performing the testing for the same test cases. It can consume more time than it is required.
4. Limited Coverage: Manual testing can miss some of the test cases and it will be not notified by the tester. This can result in delivering the software product with errors or untasted test cases.