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What are the Different Types of Tests?

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Types of Tests

Test definitions vary. Sometimes they are categorized by type, level and approach. Below is my take on the different types of testing.

Unit Testing: Verifies that a single unit of code (a specific behavior in a method) behaves as intended.

Integration Testing: Verifies that two or more units communicating with each other behave as intended.

Component Testing: Verifies that a collection of related units communicating with each other behave as intended.

System Testing: Verifies that a collection of related components communication with each other behave as intended (end to end system testing).

Functional Testing: Verifies that a business feature behaves as expected.

User Acceptance Testing: Verifies that a business feature behaves as expected.

Smoke Testing: Verifies that the system is operational. The focus is more on the system being up and running vs. behaving as expected.

Regression Testing: Verifies that previously built functionality still behaves as expected.

Performance Testing: Verifies that the system or feature response time is acceptable under normal workloads.

Load Testing: Verifies that the system or feature response time is acceptable under heavy workload.

Security Testing: Verifies that the system and its data is not vulnerable to intruders or malicious users.

Stress Testing: Verifies that the system behaves correctly or fails gracefully when operated beyond it’s expected workload limits.

Usability Testing: Verifies that the design, layout, and user interface of a business feature is intuitive, easy to understand, easy to learn, easy to execute and attractive to the business users.

Exploratory Testing: A sophisticated and thoughtful approach to testing that combines learning, test design and test execution into one. It’s non-scripted, however, it is not ad hoc testing. Instead it applies test heuristics in a disciplined manner to supplement story testing and go beyond the obvious variations that have been already scripted and tested.

Next, let’s look at the Agile Testing Quadrant.

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