From the course: Software Testing Foundations: Test Preparation
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Testing techniques
From the course: Software Testing Foundations: Test Preparation
Testing techniques
- [Narrator] Strategy and preparation for testing requires understanding of the kind of techniques used during testing. If you think about the kind of software your team is developing, there are literally hundreds of approaches to evaluating that application. We could talk about many different categories and test types. Each has its own nuanced approach, and each is specific to the software. But for our preparation discussion, that's not practical. Let's begin by focusing on the bigger scope, and then we can delve into the kind of things you might need to tackle. For starters, there are two overall approaches in quality: functional testing and non-functional testing. In a functional test, you have acceptance criteria matching your test plan and requirements of the product to a series of test cases to make certain the product meets the product design specifications. In other words, you are outside looking in, making…
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