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# Testing Phase

Quality Assurance’s participation in the product design stage has become increasingly important. Software design is often complicated and requires many different opinions to define a product that will efficiently meet the needs of many different kinds and sizes of business. That is why product suggestion forms are important.

QA uses the testing design phase to learn about the product and determine the best approach to testing the product. QA tests not only the functionality of the product, but also that the product adheres to standards which provide consistency and continuity, accommodates data flow in the application and interfacing applications, and is user-friendly.