Class, if you were a designer, what components help testing quality and effectiveness?
If i am the designer i will depend on the process and the associated stakeholders. As far as i know in the IT industry, large companies have a team with responsibilities to evaluate the developed software in context of the given requirements. Moreover, developers also conduct testing which they called Unit Testing this happens when once the code is done and before released for system testing. Test Cases should be written during the design time only and after the development phase we have to execute the test cases .

Supporting Activity: Testing

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Is testing a distinct phase of the project, or is it part of multiple phases of the project? Explain. What components help testing quality and effectiveness?

To have an effective testing it is important to start is as early as possible to make testing as a part of the process of deciding requirements . To get most usefull perspective on the development of the projet. It is worthwile devoting some thought to the entire lifecycle including how feedback from the end user that will influence the future of the application. Testing is a distinct phase of a project although depending on your Project Methodology, we may go through this testing phase several time with each iteration of deliverable. Basically, it will go through Define - Analyze - Develop - Test – Deploy.

In developing a system you should know all the aspect of the system and all the involved in the system development. So we dont need to choose on both parties because the comments and suggestion of the management and end user are important. To complete the development of the system you need to gather all the data to all the stakeholder. Sometimes some data can be gather to the management level and other data can be collected