Information Technology Reference
In-Depth Information
Chapter
2
Kinds of Software
Testing Projects
After going through
Chapter 1,
you may have understood some basic concepts in
software development, software testing, and software testing management.
So far so good!
Coming to software testing types, you may need to understand concepts of
what needs to be tested, why it should be tested, and how it will be tested.
2.1
Software Testing Types
There are different kinds of software applications out there to be used for fulfilling dif-
ferent needs of the users. There are enterprise resource planning (ERP) and big enter-
prise software applications that are used by global corporations to do their everyday
business on the one hand, and there are desktop applications to be used by individual
persons for fulfilling a variety of needs like word processing, calculations, entertain-
ment, training, and so on, on the other hand. Then there are different platforms on
which the software application runs. Again software applications have different archi-
tectures. The software application development process also differs from one place to
another. To take care of these variations, there are many types of software testing.
Let us have a look at some of the software testing types:
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Black box testing
—The majority of software testing can be classified as
black box testing. Here the tester need not know software design or code.
These tests are based on requirements and functionality.
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