Testing is an important factor, not only in identifying and fixing bugs in an application but also in determining its life cycle.
Independent testing corresponds to an independent team, who involve in testing activities other than developer to avoid author bias and is often more effective at finding defects and failures.
Choosing a right partner to test and audit the existing build quality of products is quintessential as enterprises want to MVP fast and at times it is natural to miss out on key bugs which would ultimately hamper the overall user experience.
Industries across the globe have competently transformed testing mechanisms to proactively prevent bugs, thereby attaining higher quality standards. Independent testing is a collection of tests performed by one or more professional software testers, who are not related to the product development team. They are called “independent” because they are neither associated with the producer nor the consumer. Independent software testing can be conducted for web applications as well as applications on iOS and Android platforms.
Independent testing in the Software testing is generally where the testing is completely outsourced and testers work as an individual dedicated unit. Testers will have the complete independence of testing with almost negligible interference of Developers or Business. This helps the testers to test freely and raise as many issues as possible without hesitation.
The advantages of Independent testing:
- The tester sees each defect in a neutral perspective
- The tester sees what has been built rather than what the developer thought
- Testers raise issues freely and raise as many as possible which in the other way improves the Quality of the product.
- Developers will have negligible interference in the issues raised which will force them to work hard.
