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Software Testing

Software testing is any activity aimed at evaluating attributes or capabilities of a program to determine if it meets requirements, though testing remains an art due to limited understanding of software principles. Testing is difficult due to software complexity, as we cannot completely test even moderately complex programs, and serves purposes beyond debugging like quality assurance. Testing involves trade-offs between budget, time and quality, and while it finds flaws, exhaustive testing is impossible so testing cannot guarantee high quality software or prove a system is flawless.

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Software Testing

Software testing is any activity aimed at evaluating attributes or capabilities of a program to determine if it meets requirements, though testing remains an art due to limited understanding of software principles. Testing is difficult due to software complexity, as we cannot completely test even moderately complex programs, and serves purposes beyond debugging like quality assurance. Testing involves trade-offs between budget, time and quality, and while it finds flaws, exhaustive testing is impossible so testing cannot guarantee high quality software or prove a system is flawless.

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Software testing is any activity aimed at evaluating an

attribute or capability of a program or system and


determining that it meets its required results. Although
crucial to software quality and widely deployed by
programmers and testers, software testing still remains an
art, due to limited understanding of the principles of
software.

The difficulty in software testing stems from the complexity


of software: we can not completely test a program with
moderate complexity. Testing is more than just debugging.
The purpose of testing can be quality assurance, verification
and validation, or reliability estimation.

Testing can be used as a generic metric as well. Correctness testing and reliability testing are two major
areas of testing. Software testing is a trade-off between budget, time and quality.

Software testing is not a "silver bullet'' that can guarantee the production of high quality software
systems. While a "correct'' correctness proof demonstrates that a software system (which exactly meets
its specification) will always operate in a given manner, software testing that is not fully exhaustive can
only suggest the presence of flaws and cannot prove their absence.

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