Week 9 Software Testing Blog
This week i have decided to read Understanding The Difference Between Unit, Integration and Functional Testing by Sushma S.
The article uses a login page as an example to help explain the difference between unit, integration, and functional testing. The reason for this is that a login page is extremely common and usually used in most web applications. It then goes over the cases for each type of testing and they are as follows:
Unit Testing –
Field length for username and password
input field values should be valid
login button is enabled only after valid values are entered in both fields
Integration Testing –
user sees the welcome message after entering valid values and pushing the login button
users should be navigated to the welcome page or home page after valid entry and clicking login button
Functional Testing –
the expected behavior is checked
welcome message after succesfull login
can an inactivated user login
is there a forgot password link
Unit testing is generally done by the software developer who knows the code well. It is important for finding bugs early on in the development process, and is done before any integration or integration testing occurs. “Unit tests save time and cost, and it is reusable and easy to maintain”. After unit testing comes integration testing. After everything has been tested as a unit then integration testing occurs.
This when the units are put together and tested as a whole. This tests how the system works together and verifies that the behavior is correct. Then there is functional testing. This is a black box technique where the functionality of the system is tested. This basically means that we are testing that the behavior of the application and not the code itself. In order to successfully test an application you need to use all three testing methods. This provides the best test suite where any possible bugs should be found.
Here are some other links that i found usefulL:
https://blog.tentamen.eu/cleanup-order-in-selenium-headless-test/
http://www.softwaretestinghelp.com/how-perform-software-product-testing/
http://blog.smartbear.com/api-testing/top-5-api-testing-blog-posts-of-2016/
http://rhythmoftesting.blogspot.com/2016/12/thoughts-on-agile-testing-days-2016-pt-2.html
From the blog CS@Worcester – Computer Science Journal by jtassone93 and used with permission of the author. All other rights reserved by the author.