The Three Kinds of Testing

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Section: Problems and Exercises

Question Number: 6

What are the three kinds of testing suggested in the textbook?

The three kinds of testing suggested in the textbook are Stub testing, Unit or program testing, and Systems testing. Testing is used to see if a certain part of a system or the whole system works as planned. When a system doesn’t work as planned it was either not tested or wasn’t tested adequately. Stub testing is testing an isolated subset of a program. Unit testing is the testing of an entire system. Systems testing is able to make an isolated written and tested program work when implemented into a working system.

When one does not test their product or when they don’t test it enough, then there can be problems. Video games, ever since the Xbox 360 and PlayStation 3 came out, have had betas where people understand they are playing a piece of the game and that it will contain bugs all for either stress testing servers or for testing of whether the controls of their game is good. This shows how important testing is to a program before releasing it, whether to the public or for a client.

Stub test testing is conducted on individual events or modules of a program and is the testing of an isolated subset of a program. Software testing is basically an investigation process conducted to provide stakeholders with information about the quality of the product or service under test. Software testing can also provide an objective, independent view of the software to allow the business to appreciate and understand the risks of software implementation. Test techniques include the process of executing a program or application with the intent of finding software bugs, errors or other defects.

Unit or program testing done after the stub test for a program, it tests all the events and modules together. It is testing in which all the events and modules that have been coded and stub tested for a program, and are tested as an...