Software Testing: Principles and Practices

Chapter 6

System and Acceptance Testing

In this chapter—

• System testing overview

• Why do system testing

• Functional versus non-functional testing

• Functional system testing

• Non-functional testing

• Acceptance testing

• Summary of testing phases

6.1 SYSTEM TESTING OVERVIEW

System testing is defined as a testing phase conducted on the complete integrated system, to evaluate the system compliance with its specified requirements. It is done after unit, component, and integration testing phases.

 

The testing conducted on the complete integrated products and solutions to evaluate system compliance with specified requirements on functional and nonfunctional aspects is called system testing.

A system is a complete set of integrated components that together ...