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Testing Strategies

A rigorous testing strategy should make use of appropriate testing metrics and tools and have well-defined exit criteria.

Types of Testing

A well-organized testing strategy should include the following three types of testing:

• Assertion testing— This is also referred to as black-box testing. It involves testing at the API level and the goal is to make sure that the code performs as specified.

• Functional testing— This is also referred to as white-box testing. It is done at a high level and takes individually tested features and places them together in small applications and test cases to test whether they work together as specified.

• Stress testing— This is the type of testing that is dreaded by developers because ...