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What Is Functional Testing (Testing of Functions) in Software?

Functional testing verifies that the specific functions of an application or system work as intended. It involves testing software features against requirements or functional specifications to answer questions like "can users perform this task?" or "does this feature work?". Functional testing techniques are often specification-based and can be done from a requirements-based or business-process-based perspective to ensure critical functions are tested according to risk priorities or common business workflows.

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What Is Functional Testing (Testing of Functions) in Software?

Functional testing verifies that the specific functions of an application or system work as intended. It involves testing software features against requirements or functional specifications to answer questions like "can users perform this task?" or "does this feature work?". Functional testing techniques are often specification-based and can be done from a requirements-based or business-process-based perspective to ensure critical functions are tested according to risk priorities or common business workflows.

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What is Functional testing (Testing of functions) in

software?
?

In functional testing basically the testing of the functions of component or system is done. It refers to
activities that verify a specific action or function of the code. Functional test tends to answer the questions
like can the user do this or does this particular feature work. This is typically described in a
requirements specification or in a functional specification.
The techniques used for functional testing are often specification-based. Testing functionality can be done
from two perspective:

Requirement-based testing: In this type of testing the requirements are prioritized depending on
the risk criteria and accordingly the tests are prioritized. This will ensure that the most important and
most critical tests are included in the testing effort.

Business-process-based testing: In this type of testing the scenarios involved in the day-to-day
business use of the system are described. It uses the knowledge of the business processes. For
example, a personal and payroll system may have the business process along the lines of: someone
joins the company, employee is paid on the regular basis and employee finally leaves the company.

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