What is Software Testing? What are its goals and principles?

Software testing is a process to detect the defects and faults before it is given to the end-users. The goal of software testing is to identify them.
- Fault Identification is the process of identifying the cause of failure; they may be several.
- Fault Correction and Removal is the process of making changes to the software and system to remove the fault.

The main objectives of software testing are:
- To design a test case with high probability of finding undiscovered bugs.
- To execute the program with the intent of finding bugs.

The principles of software testing are:
- As part of traceability analysis, every test should be able to be raced back to the requirements.
- Test should be planned long before testing begins.
- Testing should begin “in small” and progress toward testing “in the large”.
- An independent third party should conduct the test.

Software Testing Strategies integrate software test case design methods into a well planned series of steps that result in the successful implementation of the software.
A test specification is developed by the leader of quality assurance group. A Test Specification is an overall strategy that defines the specific tests that should be conducted.
Software testing begins from a single component using white-box and black-box techniques to derive test cases. Once the class is tested, integration of the class through communicationand collaboration with other tested classes is tested. The main goal is to uncover as many errors as possible.