The feedback of any action is an important item for every activity type. It shows whether the action was successful or not; whether the area and direction of the activity is right; whether there are any prospects for further development, etc.

The feedback helps to realize the weak points and gives the opportunity to make the product better and popular. It is the essential element of the software development life cycle. Some specialists are responsible for providing the feedback.

Who Ensures the Feedback During Software Development?

• The software testers (after performing functional testing, usability testing, performance testing, etc.)
• The end users which have taken part in beta testing or reported about some issue during the interaction with software product.

Different methodologies of software development are used nowadays. And software testing is an inevitable step of the development process. The type of checking depends upon the programming technique and approach.

According to the Traditional Approach to Software Development:

• testing, in general, is conducted after the system or application is already developed;
• the tester’s aim is to find as many bugs as possible. 

The experts of mobile testing, desktop testing and website testing are sure that the traditional approach is not effective in most cases. Besides that, it has several disadvantages. For example, the feedback of system functioning comes too late.

What Are the Results of Late Feedback?

• It means that the fixing procedure takes more time than it could take at the earlier stages of the development process.
• The production is delayed because of the time-consuming fixing procedures and regression testing.

To avoid such troubles, it is better to apply the agile approach of software products development.