Editing Software testing (section)

=== Development testing ===
{{Main|Development testing}}

Development testing is a software development process that involves the synchronized application of a broad spectrum of defect prevention and detection strategies in order to reduce software development risks, time, and costs. It is performed by the software developer or engineer during the construction phase of the software development lifecycle. Development testing aims to eliminate construction errors before code is promoted to other testing; this strategy is intended to increase the quality of the resulting software as well as the efficiency of the overall development process.

Depending on the organization's expectations for software development, development testing might include [[static code analysis]], data flow analysis, metrics analysis, peer code reviews, unit testing, code coverage analysis, [[Requirements traceability|traceability]], and other software testing practices.