Deep Dive with Portability Testing

Deep Dive with Portability Testing

Portability Testing is the type of Software Testing which is carried out to determine the degree of ease or difficulty to which a software application can be effectively and efficiently transferred from one hardware, software or environment to another one. The results of portability testing are measurements of how easily the software component or application will be integrated into the environment and then these results will be compared to the non-functional requirement of portability of the software system. The measurement is based on the comparison of the cost to adapt the software to the new environment to the cost of redevelopment.

Portability Testing Attributes:

• Adaptability:
  Adaptability is defined as the capacity of the software application to adopt to a particular environment without any effort. Common communication standards between multiple systems help in enhancing the adaptability of the system as a whole.
• Installability:
  Installability is defined as the capacity of software applications to get installed to the desired environment without using extra resources. Installability is performed on a software that is to be installed in a target environment.
• Replaceability:
  Replaceability is defined as the capacity of software application to replace other software in a particular environment. The software application that is replacing the previous software application must produce the same results on all target environments.
• Co-existence:
  Co-existence is defined as the capacity of software applications to work with other software applications on the system without disturbing each other and sharing the same resource. Specially this testing is used in large systems which include multiple subsystems as part of it.