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Test types
- [Instructor] A test type is a group of test activities aimed at testing specific characteristics of a software system based on specific objectives. Such objectives may include: evaluating functional quality characteristics, such as completeness, evaluating nonfunctional quality characteristics, such as performance, evaluating whether the structure or architecture of the component is correct, and evaluating the effects of changes to the software and looking for unintended changes. Functional testing of a system involves tests that evaluate functions that the system should perform. The functions are what the system should do. Functional testing considers the behavior of the software, so black box techniques may be used to derive test conditions and test cases for the functionality of the component or system. Functional test design and execution may involve special skills or knowledge such as knowledge of a particular…
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