8 Software testing
Objectives
The objective of this chapter is to introduce software testing and software testing processes. When you have read the chapter, you will:
understand the stages of testing from testing during development to acceptance testing by system customers;
have been introduced to techniques that help you choose test cases that are geared to discovering program defects;
understand test-first development, where you design tests before writing code and run these tests automatically;
know about three distinct types of testing—component testing, system testing, and release testing;
understand the distinctions between development testing and user testing.
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