Software testing

Quality:

Software testing - investigation conducted to provide information about the quality of a software product or service under test and enable the business to understand the risks of software implementation. Article “Software testing” in English Wikipedia has 77.5 points for quality (as of July 1, 2026). The article contains 134 references and 53 sections. The article also contains templates indicating quality issues, therefore its score was reduced by 4.08 points.

This article has the best quality in Hindi Wikipedia. However, this article is the most popular in English version.

Achievements in all the time:

English Wikipedia:

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The 6258^th most popular in English Wikipedia.

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The 4962^nd most editable in English Wikipedia.

Global Wikipedia:

The 8790^th most popular in all topics.

The 8807^th most popular in AI.

Achievements in the last month:

English Wikipedia:

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The 4880^th most editable in English Wikipedia in the last month.

In June 2026 the article “Software testing” was edited by 11 authors in English Wikipedia (4880^th place) and written by 18 authors in all languages.

Since the creation of article “Software testing”, its content was written by 1142 registered users of English Wikipedia (4962^nd place) and edited by 2735 registered Wikipedia users in all languages (8807^th place).

The article is cited 990 times in English Wikipedia and cited 5091 times in all languages.

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

• Local (English): #121 in December 2001
• Global: #133 in December 2001

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

• Local (English): #702 in April 2015
• Global: #1884 in April 2015

There are 40 language versions for this article in the WikiRank database (of the considered 55 Wikipedia language editions).

The quality and popularity assessment was based on Wikipédia dumps from July 1, 2026 (including revision history and pageviews for previous years).

The table below shows the language versions of the article with the highest quality.

#	Language	Quality grade	Quality score
1	Hindi (hi) सॉफ्टवेयर परीक्षण		79.6045
2	English (en) Software testing		77.4889
3	German (de) Softwaretest		69.3971
4	Estonian (et) Tarkvara testimine		61.8946
5	Finnish (fi) Ohjelmiston testaaminen		52.5777
6	Basque (eu) Software testatze		48.5212
7	Vietnamese (vi) Thử nghiệm phần mềm		44.3842
8	Bulgarian (bg) Тестване на софтуер		35.3367
9	Portuguese (pt) Teste de software		33.4807
10	Japanese (ja) ソフトウェアテスト		32.294

The following table shows the most popular language versions of the article.

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) Software testing		19 002 497
2	Russian (ru) Тестирование программного обеспечения		2 707 100
3	German (de) Softwaretest		1 660 327
4	Spanish (es) Pruebas de software		1 413 733
5	Japanese (ja) ソフトウェアテスト		1 086 501
6	Portuguese (pt) Teste de software		837 458
7	French (fr) Test (informatique)		706 710
8	Ukrainian (uk) Тестування програмного забезпечення		495 502
9	Chinese (zh) 软件测试		469 086
10	Polish (pl) Testowanie oprogramowania		308 028

The following table shows the language versions of the article with the highest popularity in the last month.

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) Software testing		13 788
2	Russian (ru) Тестирование программного обеспечения		1 140
3	German (de) Softwaretest		1 055
4	Chinese (zh) 软件测试		674
5	Ukrainian (uk) Тестування програмного забезпечення		574
6	French (fr) Test (informatique)		424
7	Japanese (ja) ソフトウェアテスト		337
8	Spanish (es) Pruebas de software		259
9	Portuguese (pt) Teste de software		153
10	Italian (it) Collaudo del software		109

The following table shows the language versions of the article with the highest Authors’ Interest.

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	English (en) Software testing		1 142
2	German (de) Softwaretest		234
3	French (fr) Test (informatique)		121
4	Russian (ru) Тестирование программного обеспечения		113
5	Dutch (nl) Testen (software)		112
6	Spanish (es) Pruebas de software		105
7	Portuguese (pt) Teste de software		91
8	Italian (it) Collaudo del software		79
9	Hebrew (he) בדיקות תוכנה		73
10	Japanese (ja) ソフトウェアテスト		71

The following table shows the language versions of the article with the highest Authors’ Interest in the last month.

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	English (en) Software testing		11
2	Basque (eu) Software testatze		2
3	German (de) Softwaretest		1
4	Estonian (et) Tarkvara testimine		1
5	Hindi (hi) सॉफ्टवेयर परीक्षण		1
6	Ukrainian (uk) Тестування програмного забезпечення		1
7	Vietnamese (vi) Thử nghiệm phần mềm		1
8	Arabic (ar) فحص البرمجيات		0
9	Belarusian (be) Тэставанне праграмнага забеспячэння		0
10	Bulgarian (bg) Тестване на софтуер		0

The following table shows the language versions of the article with the highest number of citations.

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