Preface
What is “the formal software testing process”?
One of the definitions the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) Software Standards collection provides for process is “a course of action to be taken to perform a given task” or “a written description of a course of actions, for example, a documented test procedure.” Various editions of Webster’s Dictionary offer a series of definitions for process, including “a particular method of doing something, generally involving a number of steps or operations.”
A simpler definition of a process is “the way we do things.”
Thus, we could say that the “testing process” is “a course of action to be taken to perform formal testing,” or “the way we do testing here.”
But, how does “the ...
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