A Comprehensive Guide To Testing Installers & What To Look For While Testing Installation Program

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Things To Consider While Testing Installation Programs General step that we take if an application fails to install

Benefits & risks associated with testing installers

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Things remember kept in mind while installing programs

“Many of us face problems while installing the application in our daily lives” Problems like, application is taking long time to install or installation process gets cancelled itself due to storage issues, cache issues, use of old OS.

What are the general steps that we take, if an application fails to install or the installation process is slower than expected?

Further, we will have the brief discussion about the installers and testing the installers, what need to be focused while testing the installer

General Step That We Take If an Application Fails To Install The next time you have a software problem, try these troubleshooting tips in the order they're listed below. Carefully document the steps you take

 Free up RAM by closing other open programs.  Restart the software.  Shut down and restart your computer.  Use the Internet to find help.  Undo any recent hardware or software changes.  Uninstall the software, and then reinstall it.  Look for software patches.  Scan for viruses and malware.  Check for a firewall conflict.

Benefits & Risks Associated With Testing Installers  Involves close interaction with the operating system and is dependent upon it for the libraries, registry, files  Convenient to use due to its instinctive interface, messages and navigation

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 Design of the installation application  It offers compatibility of both the native and third-party components or drivers, libraries, with different platforms

Risks 

User data could be lost

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Operating system may experience failure

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Application failure

Processes Also That Needs To Be Tested While Analyzing the Installation Programs Following are the processes that need to be kept in mind while the installation programs are tested.

 Installation: First of all, we need to ensure sufficient resources are available for installing the resources of application such as RAM, disk space, etc.  Update: In the Update process, there are also some points that need to be checked for its correctness. Like, the file list must be correct, unnecessary files must not be present; file list must be checked for different installation parameters.  Uninstallation: The first thing that needs to be tested is that whether the application correctly gets removed upon uninstallation from the installed system registry. Physical application files should also get removed at the same time. User must be able to perform uninstallation while the application is running.

“If your problem still exists, you can reach out to hire installation testers”

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References: https://www.techsoup.org/support/articles-and-how-tos/eleven-tips-for-troubleshooting-software https://www.bugraptors.com/guide-to-testing-installers/

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