Creating a software system is an incredibly complex and error-prone task. Just as with any engineering activity, defects arise in all phases of development and must be found and resolved before they negatively impact users.

Building quality into a product is the best way to achieve a high-quality result. That means carefully listening to users, understanding their needs, writing precise requirements, choosing high-quality tools and reusable components, working through the design, constructing the system carefully, and conducting continuous reviews. Achieving a high-quality product also demands testing the quality of the product at every stage. In the long term, quality also depends on the software development process, and the ability of the development organization to improve their process rather than simply finding and repairing individual defects.

Too often in our industry, testing is done manually and incompletely. This allows defects to go undetected, and it robs the development team of effort that could be better spent on other activities.

This category hosts projects that seek to build tools for software testing.