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Software testing tactics

This article discusses a set of tactics useful in software testing. It is intended as a comprehensive list of tactical approaches to software quality assurance (more widely colloquially known as quality assurance (traditionally called by the acronym "QA")) and general application of the test method (usually just called "testing" or sometimes "developer…

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Installation testing

The box approach

Automated testing

Compatibility testing

Smoke and sanity testing

Regression testing

Acceptance testing

Beta testing

Functional vs non-functional testing

Continuous testing

Destructive testing

Software performance testing

Accessibility testing

Security testing

Internationalization and localization testing

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testing software test system may code tests unit development data integration process used application cases acceptance non-functional performance interface functionality

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a database or a log file does qualify as grey-boxinstance oftests that require modifying a back-end data repository0.80text
as the user would not normally be able to change the data repository in normal production operationsinstance oftests that require modifying a back-end data repository0.80text
seeding a databaseinstance ofa grey-box tester will be permitted to set up an isolated testing environment with activities0.80text
executing SQL statements against the databaseinstance ofThe tester can observe the state of the product being tested after performing certain actions0.80text
then executing queries to ensure that the expected changes have been reflectedinstance ofThe tester can observe the state of the product being tested after performing certain actions0.80text

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