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expected results coverage technique
intuition and experience

7.8 PUTTING FUNCTIONAL TESTING IN
PERSPECTIVE

The most visible and well understood kind of testing is functional testing. Both the
need for functional testing and the best description of functional testing goals come
from the business requirements. The most common test shortcomings in functional
testing tend to arise from the alternate paths, the exceptions, and the negative situa-
tions. Much of this chapter is devoted to a variety of general and detailed functional
testing techniques that when conscientiously applied in a comprehensive test plan
tend to reduce these shortcomings.

KEY TERMS AND CONCEPTS

White box testing
Logic coverage
Anchor date

Black box testing
Behavior coverage
Boundary value epsilon

Functional testing
Use case testing
Regression testing