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System testing

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System testing, a.k.a. end-to-end (E2E) testing, is testing conducted on a complete software system.

System testing describes testing as at the system level to contrast to testing at the integrationorunit level.

System testing often serves the purpose of evaluating the system's compliance with its specified requirements ^{[citation needed]} – often from a functional requirement specification (FRS), a system requirement specification (SRS), another type of specification or multiple.

System testing can detect defects in the system as a whole.^{[citation needed] [1]}

System testing can verify the design, the behavior and even the believed expectations of the customer. It is also intended to test up to and beyond the bounds of specified software and hardware requirements.^{[citation needed]}

Approaches[edit]

• Destructive testing: tests are carried out to the specimen's failure, in order to understand a specimen's performance or material behaviour under different loads.
• Nondestructive testing: analysis techniques to evaluate the properties of a material, component or system without causing damage.
• Fault injection: A testing technique which stress the system in an unusual way to examine the system behavior.^[2][3][4]

See also[edit]

• Automated testing
• Automatic test equipment
• Mobile-device testing
• Quality control
• Software testing
• Test case
• Test fixture
• Test plan

Notes[edit]

References[edit]

• Black, Rex (2002). Managing the Testing Process (2nd ed.). Wiley Publishing. ISBN 0-471-22398-0.