Tuesday, June 3, 2008

A tester need to know about Logical and Physical design..

Business requirements are defined during the requirement phase. It is followed by logical design and refines requirement. Logical design is an abstract, conceptual not physical.
Logical design is all about detail system framework and logical architecture is the manner in which logical components of a solution are organized and integrated. The Architectural Design phase, where a software architecture for the implementation of the requirements is designed and specified, identifying the components within the software and the relationships between the components.
Physical Design describes how an information system will be physically implemented in order to meet its logical requirements. This involves specifying the technical (hardware and software) components that will enable the logical design specifications to be implemented.
The logical design phase is verified with static techniques. for example one module may need a particular data created by another module is not provided correctly. Static anlaysis can be applied to detect these types of control flow errors.
Integration test cases is a good approach to test it and determine whether all components interface properly, parameters are passed, and the file processing is correct. It doesnot verify that functionality is correct, only it perfrm as it is designed,

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