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Software Testing, 5th Edition
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Software Testing, 5th Edition

by Geoff Thompson, Peter Morgan, Angelina Samaroo, John Kurowski, Peter Williams, Marie Salmon, Paul Weymouth
March 2024
Intermediate to advanced
283 pages
7h 53m
English
BCS, The Chartered Institute for IT
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2 LIFE CYCLES

Angelina Samaroo

INTRODUCTION

In the previous chapter we looked at testing as a concept – what it is and why we should do it. In this chapter we will look at testing as part of the overall software development process. Clearly, testing does not take place in isolation; there must be a product first.

We will refer to work products and products. A work product is an intermediate deliverable required to create the final product. Work products can be documentation or code. The code and associated documentation will become the product when the system is declared ready for release. In software development, work products are generally created in a series of defined stages, from capturing a customer requirement, to creating the system, ...

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