Designing a Performance Test Environment
08.02.2012
There are a lot of projects where all performance testing are conducted on the live environment. On the other hand, we can say that this is rather uncommon and adds
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What Is Coverage-Based Testing?
23.01.2012
The majority of generally accepted testing techniques, it doesn’t matter if it is functional testing (black-box testing) or structural testing (white-box testing), use different ways of test coverage as the
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What Is Usage-Based Statistical Testing?
20.01.2012
Actual client usage of software may be considered as a form of usage-based testing. In the case if defects are detected by clients, some information about them can be reported
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Black-Box Testing vs White-Box Testing
16.01.2012
The main differences between black-box testing (BBT) and white-box testing (WBT) are in such aspects: Objects The tested objects may overlap sometimes. WBT is commonly used to test not very
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Safety Assurance And Failure Scope
12.12.2011
Note: the article was updated in September 2018. Safety-critical systems are those, that can cause injury or even loss of user’s life in case of failure. Such systems can damage
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What Is The Difference Between White Box, Black Box And Gray Box Testing?
21.11.2011
Black box testing is such a technique based exclusively on demands and specifications. It requires no knowledge of internal paths, structures, or realization of the software product under test. In
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Regression and Confirmation testing. What is the difference?
08.11.2011
Note: this article was updated in September 2019. In this article, we would like to separate the differences between these types of tests. But, where and why to use each
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Traditional and Modern Way of Software Testing
04.11.2011
Many organizations still use such testing methodology (it is also called traditional) where software testing is usually conducted after the build and execution stages. Traditional (old) way of software testing:
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What is Monkey Testing?
03.11.2011
Note: this article was updated in July 2019 Is it right to trust to chance, especially when it comes to your job? If to talk about software testing, you hardly
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Difference Between System and Acceptance Testing
01.11.2011
Acceptance testing tests the system whether it satisfies the requirements. It is alike with System testing in such focus that the whole system is checked. But it is significant dissimilarity
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The Main Goal of Acceptance Testing
05.10.2011
Note: this article was updated in December 2019. Have you already conducted all system tests? Are all the bugs found and fixed? Looks like you have done with testing, there
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