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<ul><li><a href="Data_modeling" title="Data modeling">Data modeling</a></li>
<li><a href="Software_development_process" title="Software development process">Processes</a></li>
<li><a href="Requirements_analysis" title="Requirements analysis">Requirements</a></li>
<li><a href="Software_design" title="Software design">Design</a></li>
<li><a href="Software_construction" title="Software construction">Construction</a></li>
<li><a href="Software_engineering" title="Software engineering">Engineering</a></li>
<li><a href="Software_testing" title="Software testing">Testing</a></li>
<li><a href="Debugging" title="Debugging">Debugging</a></li>
<li><a href="Software_deployment" title="Software deployment">Deployment</a></li>
<li><a href="Software_maintenance" title="Software maintenance">Maintenance</a></li></ul></div></div></td>
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<div class="sidebar-list mw-collapsible mw-collapsed"><div class="sidebar-list-title" style="color: var(--color-base)">Paradigms and models</div><div class="sidebar-list-content mw-collapsible-content hlist">
<ul><li><a href="Agile_software_development" title="Agile software development">Agile</a></li>
<li><a href="Cleanroom_software_engineering" title="Cleanroom software engineering">Cleanroom</a></li>
<li><a href="Incremental_build_model" title="Incremental build model">Incremental</a></li>
<li><a href="Software_prototyping" title="Software prototyping">Prototyping</a></li>
<li><a href="Spiral_model" title="Spiral model">Spiral</a></li>
<li><a href="V-model_(software_development)" title="V-model (software development)">V model</a></li>
<li><a href="Waterfall_model" title="Waterfall model">Waterfall</a></li></ul></div></div></td>
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<ul><li><a href="Adaptive_software_development" title="Adaptive software development">ASD</a></li>
<li><a href="Disciplined_agile_delivery" title="Disciplined agile delivery">DAD</a></li>
<li><a href="DevOps" title="DevOps">DevOps</a></li>
<li><a href="Dynamic_systems_development_method" title="Dynamic systems development method">DSDM</a></li>
<li><a href="Feature-driven_development" title="Feature-driven development">FDD</a></li>
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<li><a href="Kanban_(development)" title="Kanban (development)">Kanban</a></li>
<li><a href="Lean_software_development" title="Lean software development">Lean SD</a></li>
<li><a href="Scrum_(software_development)#Large-scale_Scrum" title="Scrum (software development)">LeSS</a></li>
<li><a href="Model-driven_development" class="mw-redirect" title="Model-driven development">MDD</a></li>
<li><a href="Microsoft_Solutions_Framework" title="Microsoft Solutions Framework">MSF</a></li>
<li><a href="Personal_software_process" title="Personal software process">PSP</a></li>
<li><a href="Rapid_application_development" title="Rapid application development">RAD</a></li>
<li><a href="Rational_unified_process" title="Rational unified process">RUP</a></li>
<li><a href="Scaled_agile_framework" title="Scaled agile framework">SAFe</a></li>
<li><a href="Scrum_(software_development)" title="Scrum (software development)">Scrum</a></li>
<li><a href="SEMAT" title="SEMAT">SEMAT</a></li>
<li><a href="Test-driven_development" title="Test-driven development">TDD</a></li>
<li><a href="Team_software_process" title="Team software process">TSP</a></li>
<li><a href="Unified_process" title="Unified process">UP</a></li>
<li><a href="Extreme_programming" title="Extreme programming">XP</a></li></ul></div></div></td>
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<ul><li><a href="Software_configuration_management" title="Software configuration management">Configuration management</a></li>
<li><a href="Deployment_management#Computer_science" title="Deployment management">Deployment management</a></li>
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<li><a href="Software_project_management" title="Software project management">Project management</a></li>
<li><a href="Software_quality_assurance" title="Software quality assurance">Quality assurance</a></li>
<li><a href="User_experience" title="User experience">User experience</a></li></ul></div></div></td>
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<ul><li><a href="Acceptance_test-driven_development" title="Acceptance test-driven development">ATDD</a></li>
<li><a href="Behavior-driven_development" title="Behavior-driven development">BDD</a></li>
<li><a href="Extreme_programming_practices#Collective_code_ownership" title="Extreme programming practices">CCO</a></li>
<li><a href="Continuous_delivery" title="Continuous delivery">CD</a></li>
<li><a href="Continuous_integration" title="Continuous integration">CI</a></li>
<li><a href="Domain-driven_design" title="Domain-driven design">DDD</a></li>
<li><a href="Pair_programming" title="Pair programming">PP</a></li>
<li><a href="Specification_by_example" title="Specification by example">SBE</a></li>
<li><a href="Stand-up_meeting" title="Stand-up meeting">Stand-up</a></li>
<li><a href="Test-driven_development" title="Test-driven development">TDD</a></li></ul></div></div></td>
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<li><a href="Compiler" title="Compiler">Compiler</a></li>
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<li><a href="Graphical_user_interface_builder" title="Graphical user interface builder">GUI builder</a></li>
<li><a href="Integrated_development_environment" title="Integrated development environment">IDE</a></li>
<li><a href="Infrastructure_as_code" title="Infrastructure as code">Infrastructure as code</a></li>
<li><a href="Profiling_(computer_programming)" title="Profiling (computer programming)">Profiler</a></li>
<li><a href="Application-release_automation" title="Application-release automation">Release automation</a></li>
<li><a href="UML_tool" title="UML tool">UML Modeling</a></li></ul></div></div></td>
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<ul><li><a href="Capability_Maturity_Model_Integration" title="Capability Maturity Model Integration">CMMI</a></li>
<li><a href="IEEE_Standards_Association" title="IEEE Standards Association">IEEE standards</a></li>
<li><a href="International_Requirements_Engineering_Board" title="International Requirements Engineering Board">IREB</a></li>
<li><a href="ISO_9001" class="mw-redirect" title="ISO 9001">ISO 9001</a></li>
<li><a href="ISO/IEC_JTC_1/SC_7" title="ISO/IEC JTC 1/SC 7">ISO/IEC standards</a></li>
<li><a href="ITIL" title="ITIL">ITIL</a></li>
<li><a href="Object_Management_Group" title="Object Management Group">OMG</a></li>
<li><a href="Project_Management_Body_of_Knowledge" title="Project Management Body of Knowledge">PMBOK</a></li>
<li><a href="Software_Engineering_Body_of_Knowledge" title="Software Engineering Body of Knowledge">SWEBOK</a></li></ul></div></div></td>
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<ul><li><a href="Glossary_of_artificial_intelligence" title="Glossary of artificial intelligence">Artificial intelligence</a></li>
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<p><b>Development testing</b> is a <a href="Software_development" title="Software development">software development</a> process that involves synchronized application of a broad spectrum of <a href="Software_bug" title="Software bug">defect</a> prevention and detection strategies in order to reduce software development risks, time, and costs.
</p><p>Depending on the organization's expectations for software development, development testing might include <a href="Static_code_analysis" class="mw-redirect" title="Static code analysis">static code analysis</a>, <a href="Data_flow_analysis" class="mw-redirect" title="Data flow analysis">data flow analysis</a>, <a href="Software_metric" title="Software metric">metrics analysis</a>, <a href="Code_reviews" class="mw-redirect" title="Code reviews">peer code reviews</a>, <a href="Unit_testing" title="Unit testing">unit testing</a>, <a href="Code_coverage" title="Code coverage">code coverage analysis</a>, <a href="Requirements_traceability" title="Requirements traceability">traceability</a>, and other software verification practices.
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<div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Overview">Overview</h2></div>
<div role="note" class="hatnote navigation-not-searchable">Main article: <a href="Unit_testing" title="Unit testing">Unit testing</a></div>
<p>Development testing is performed by the software developer or engineer during the <a href="Software_construction" title="Software construction">construction phase</a> of the <a href="Software_development_lifecycle" class="mw-redirect" title="Software development lifecycle">software development lifecycle</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-codecomplete_1-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-codecomplete-1"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup>
</p><p>Rather than replace traditional <a href="Quality_assurance" title="Quality assurance">QA</a> focuses, it augments it.<sup id="cite_ref-voke_2-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-voke-2"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>2<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Development testing aims to eliminate construction errors before code is promoted to QA; this strategy is intended to increase the quality of the resulting software as well as the efficiency of the overall development and QA process.<sup id="cite_ref-adp_3-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-adp-3"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>3<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup>
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<div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Purposes_and_benefits">Purposes and benefits</h2></div>
<p>Development testing is applied for the following main purposes:
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<ul><li><a href="Quality_assurance" title="Quality assurance">Quality assurance</a>—To improve the overall development and test process by building quality and security into the software (rather than trying to test defects/vulnerabilities out).</li>
<li><a href="Regulatory_compliance" title="Regulatory compliance">Industry or Regulatory Compliance</a>—To achieve compliance with industry or regulatory compliance initiatives (e.g.., <a href="Food_and_Drug_Administration" title="Food and Drug Administration">FDA</a>, <a href="IEC_62304" title="IEC 62304">IEC 62304</a>, <a href="DO-178B" title="DO-178B">DO-178B</a>, <a href="DO-178C" title="DO-178C">DO-178C</a>, <a href="ISO_26262" title="ISO 26262">ISO 26262</a>, <a href="IEC_61508" title="IEC 61508">IEC 61508</a>, etc.) that commonly require strict risk reduction as well as bidirectional <a href="Requirements_traceability" title="Requirements traceability">requirements traceability</a> (e.g., between requirements, tests, code reviews, source code, defects, tasks, etc.)<sup id="cite_ref-adp_3-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-adp-3"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>3<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li></ul>
<p>VDC research reports that the standardized implementation of development testing processes within an overarching standardized process not only improves software quality (by aligning development activities with proven best practices) but also increases project predictability.<sup id="cite_ref-vdc_4-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-vdc-4"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>4<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> voke research reports that development testing makes software more predictable, traceable, visible, and transparent throughout the software development lifecycle.<sup id="cite_ref-voke_2-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-voke-2"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>2<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup>
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<div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Key_principles">Key principles</h2></div>
<div role="note" class="hatnote navigation-not-searchable">Main article: <a href="Unit_testing" title="Unit testing">Unit testing</a></div>
<p>In each of the above applications, development testing starts by defining policies that express the organization's expectations for <a href="https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/reliability" class="extiw external" title="wikt:reliability">reliability</a>, security, performance, and regulatory compliance. Then, after the team is trained on these policies, development testing practices are implemented to align software development activities with these policies.<sup id="cite_ref-sdtimespolicy_5-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-sdtimespolicy-5"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>5<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> These development testing practices include:
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<ul><li>Practices that prevent as many defects as possible through a <a href="W._Edwards_Deming" title="W. Edwards Deming">Deming</a>-inspired approach that promotes reducing the opportunity for error via <a href="Root_cause_analysis" title="Root cause analysis">root cause analysis</a>.</li>
<li>Practices that expose defects immediately after they are introduced—when finding and fixing defects is fastest, easiest, and cheapest.<sup id="cite_ref-adp_3-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-adp-3"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>3<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-cio_6-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-cio-6"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>6<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li></ul>
<p>The emphasis on applying a broad spectrum of defect prevention and defect detection practices is based on the premise that different development testing techniques are tuned to expose different types of defects at different points in the software development lifecycle, so applying multiple techniques in concert decreases the risk of defects slipping through the cracks.<sup id="cite_ref-adp_3-3" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-adp-3"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>3<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> The importance of applying broad set of practices is confirmed by Boehm and Basili in the often-referenced "Software Defect Reduction Top 10 List."<sup id="cite_ref-cd.umd_7-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-cd.umd-7"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>7<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup>
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<div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Static_analysis">Static analysis</h2></div>
<p>The term "development testing" has occasionally been used to describe the application of static analysis tools. Numerous industry leaders have taken issue with this conflation because static analysis is not technically testing; even static analysis that "covers" every line of code is incapable of <a href="Software_validation" class="mw-redirect" title="Software validation">validating</a> that the code does what it is supposed to do—or of exposing certain types of defects or <a href="Security_vulnerabilities" class="mw-redirect" title="Security vulnerabilities">security vulnerabilities</a> that manifest themselves only as software is dynamically executed.
Although many warn that static analysis alone should not be considered a silver bullet or panacea, most industry experts agree that static analysis is a proven method for eliminating many security, reliability, and performance defects. In other words, while static analysis is not the same as development testing, it is commonly considered a component of development testing.<sup id="cite_ref-8" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-8"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>8<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-9" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-9"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>9<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup>
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<div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Additional_activities">Additional activities</h2></div>
<p>In addition to various implementations of static analysis, such as <a href="Flow_analysis" class="mw-redirect" title="Flow analysis">flow analysis</a>, and unit testing, development testing also includes peer code review as a primary quality activity. Code review is widely considered one of the most effective defect detection and prevention methods in software development.<sup id="cite_ref-DevelopmentTesting.com_10-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-DevelopmentTesting.com-10"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>10<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup>
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<div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="See_also">See also</h2></div>
<ul><li><a href="Unit_testing" title="Unit testing">Unit testing</a></li>
<li><a href="Software_testing" title="Software testing">Software testing</a></li>
<li><a href="Integration_testing" title="Integration testing">Integration testing</a></li>
<li><a href="Functional_Testing" class="mw-redirect" title="Functional Testing">Functional Testing</a></li>
<li><a href="Regression_Testing" class="mw-redirect" title="Regression Testing">Regression Testing</a></li>
<li><a href="Software_performance_testing" title="Software performance testing">Software performance testing</a></li>
<li><a href="Acceptance_testing#User_acceptance_testing" title="Acceptance testing">User Acceptance Testing (UAT)</a></li>
<li><a href="Continuous_Integration" class="mw-redirect" title="Continuous Integration">Continuous Integration</a>/<a href="Continuous_deployment" title="Continuous deployment">Continuous deployment</a> (<a href="CI/CD" title="CI/CD">CI/CD</a>)</li></ul>
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<ul><li><a href="Graphical_user_interface_testing" title="Graphical user interface testing">Graphical user interface testing</a></li>
<li><a href="Manual_testing" title="Manual testing">Manual testing</a></li>
<li><a href="Orthogonal_array_testing" title="Orthogonal array testing">Orthogonal array testing</a></li>
<li><a href="Pair_testing" title="Pair testing">Pair testing</a></li>
<li><a href="Soak_testing" title="Soak testing">Soak testing</a></li>
<li><a href="Software_reliability_testing" title="Software reliability testing">Software reliability testing</a></li>
<li><a href="Stress_testing" title="Stress testing">Stress testing</a></li>
<li><a href="Web_testing" title="Web testing">Web testing</a></li></ul>
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