What is Component Testing?
20.05.2011
ISTQB Glossary gives us the following definition: Unit Testing (module testing): See component testing Component testing: Testing of individual software components (according to IEEE 610) Component: The smallest element of
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Classification of Software Testing Kinds
09.04.2011
What is “testing”? The book Meshcheryakova MS “Software Testing” is given two definitions of this term: 1. Testing is a process of detecting errors in software 2. Testing is a
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Positive And Negative Testing
08.04.2011
Probably all the testers know what a negative testing is. I even think that it is a favorite type of software testing for many of us. When you run a
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How to Involve Non-functional Testing?
01.04.2011
Note: this article was updated in July 2019 Who would have thought that product development is only half the way to success?! No less important is to verify its quality
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Why Do We Need Performance Testing?
24.03.2011
Note: the article was updated in June 2018. The digital technologies are improving with every single day. This fact has made modern customers very demanding in the question of technology
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Aggressive and Passive Testing
22.03.2011
I’ve been thinking about how I *bucket* testing. Here is what I mean. I see testing as aggressive and passive. Aggressive testing, to me, is the art of asking the product
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Non-Regression testing, what is it?
20.03.2011
The article was updated in May 2018. Making code changes, a developer may affect the proper work of the software. Even a small tweak can cause unexpected consequences or provoke
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Negative Test Cases for Functional Testing
18.03.2011
Negative testing is a testing technique when invalid input data are used for software quality assessment. Its purpose is to check the software behavior in case of invalid input. In
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What is Compatibility Testing?
15.03.2011
The top-quality program worth nothing if one consumer is able to use it, but another is not. A soft cannot be just a good one, it has to be universal!
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What is Fuzz Testing?
10.03.2011
Note: the article was updated in June 2018. First of all, fuzz is a random input of valid and invalid data generated for software testing. Fuzz testing or simply fuzzing
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3 Forms of Acceptance Testing and their Application
09.03.2011
Any application has to be tested. One highly respected programmer said: “programs that are not tested, are not working.” Acceptance testing is performed based on a set of common test
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