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what are the different types of testing?
 
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Unit testing
Integration testing
System testing
Functional testing
Performance testing
Load testing
Stress testing
Assembly testing
etc etc.
Some of these are specializations of other types of testing, some are synonyms, and none of these means exactly the same thing in two different organisations
 
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Thanks Lasse
Where does black and white box testing come into picture?
 
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Ah, forgot those. "Black-box testing" is the kind of testing where you poke the application using its published interfaces (e.g. UI, a networking protocol, etc.) while "white-box testing" is the kind where you test that the internals work as expected (e.g. unit testing). Typically, the white box testing starts before black box testing simply because you generally have at least some code before you've got a working user interface to test against. However, some folks start writing and executing the black box test (functional tests) at the same time as writing the white box tests.
 
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Can I say that White box testing is done only in Unit testing?
 
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What is a unit? Is it a class?
 
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Don't forget regression testing
A Unit is a component, class or function. Its the way the design was broken down before coding begins.
 
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Hello
Is system testing a black box testing?
 
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yes
 
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Originally posted by Pradeep Bhat:
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Is system testing a black box testing?


it all depends on your point of view... ;-) What is black box testing for someone is white box testing for someone else! Everything is relative (hey, I heard that somewhere... ;-) )
 
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Diff b/w load & stress testing?
 
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Originally posted by Pradeep Bhat:
Diff b/w load & stress testing?


In stress testing, you slowly choke the application by denying resources (CPU, memory, etc.) to see a) where's the limit, b) whether some defects show up in this extreme situation.
In load testing, you're running a more reasonable load and measure certain properties such as transactions per second, throughput, response times, etc. and to make sure that the application will not crash after a couple of hours.
Disclaimer: there might be other nuances to these terms, which I'm not aware of. Heck, I might have even posted outright flawed statements here...
 
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How to generate test data? Any guidelines to be followed.
 
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Originally posted by Pradeep Bhat:
How to generate test data? Any guidelines to be followed.


The golden rule is test on the edges meaning that there's not much value in testing "add(1, 2)", "add(1, 3)", "add(1, 4)" and "add(1, 5)" because if the first one works, it's highly likely that the rest work too. Then again, add(1, 0) or add(1, -1) might very well break because programmers make mistakes more easily when dealing with values on "the edge". In this case, the edge is zero.
Another golden rule is test with malicious input, i.e. don't trust the user. For example, you should always test that the user can't mess up your database by submitting a partial SQL statement as part of a form's values. Similarly, for a given input element, you should test with expected input as well as unexpected input--meaning empty strings, sp3c!alch@r@cte<rs>, etc.
 
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