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System testing validates the fully integrated software product from a black box perspective by testing the external workings of the software from the user's view. It involves testing components interact and the end-to-end system to verify desired outputs and user experience. Common types of system testing include usability testing, load testing, regression testing, and hardware/software integration testing. The specific types used depends on factors like the testing organization, available time and resources, and criticality of the software.

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System testing validates the fully integrated software product from a black box perspective by testing the external workings of the software from the user's view. It involves testing components interact and the end-to-end system to verify desired outputs and user experience. Common types of system testing include usability testing, load testing, regression testing, and hardware/software integration testing. The specific types used depends on factors like the testing organization, available time and resources, and criticality of the software.

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Types & Definition with Example

What is System Testing? Types & Definition with


Example
By Thomas Hamilton Updated October 8, 2021

What is System Testing?


System Testing is a level of testing that validates the complete and fully integrated software
product. The purpose of a system test is to evaluate the end-to-end system specifications.
Usually, the software is only one element of a larger computer-based system. Ultimately, the
software is interfaced with other software/hardware systems. System Testing is actually a
series of different tests whose sole purpose is to exercise the full computer-based system.

In this tutorial, we will learn

System Testing is Blackbox


What do you verify in System Testing?
Software Testing Hierarchy
Different Types of System Testing
What Types of System Testing Should Testers Use?

System Testing is Blackbox


Two Category of Software Testing

Black Box Testing


White Box Testing

System test falls under the black box testing category of software testing.

White box testing is the testing of the internal workings or code of a software application. In
contrast, black box or System Testing is the opposite. System test involves the external
workings of the software from the user’s perspective.

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What do you verify in System Testing?


System Testing involves testing the software code for following

Testing the fully integrated applications including external peripherals in order to check
how components interact with one another and with the system as a whole. This is also
called End to End testing scenario.
Verify thorough testing of every input in the application to check for desired outputs.
Testing of the user’s experience with the application
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Testing of the user s experience with the application. 

That is a very basic description of what is involved in system testing. You need to build
detailed test cases and test suites that test each aspect of the application as seen from the
outside without looking at the actual source code. 

Software Testing Hierarchy

As with almost any software engineering process, software testing has a prescribed order in
which things should be done. The following is a list of software testing categories arranged in
chronological order. These are the steps taken to fully test new software in preparation for
marketing it:

Unit testing performed on each module or block of code during development. Unit
Testing is normally done by the programmer who writes the code.
Integration testing done before, during and after integration of a new module into the
main software package. This involves testing of each individual code module. One piece
of software can contain several modules which are often created by several different
programmers. It is crucial to test each module’s effect on the entire program model.
System testing done by a professional testing agent on the completed software product
before it is introduced to the market.
Acceptance testing – beta testing of the product done by the actual end users.

Different Types of System Testing


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What is System Testing? Types & Definition with Example

There are more than 50 types of System Testing. For an exhaustive list of software testing
types click here. Below we have listed types of system testing a large software development
company would typically use

1. Usability Testing– mainly focuses on the user’s ease to use the application, flexibility in
handling controls and ability of the system to meet its objectives
2. Load Testing– is necessary to know that a software solution will perform under real-life
loads.
3. Regression Testing– involves testing done to make sure none of the changes made over
the course of the development process have caused new bugs. It also makes sure no old
bugs appear from the addition of new software modules over time.
4. Recovery testing – is done to demonstrate a software solution is reliable, trustworthy
and can successfully recoup from possible crashes.
5. Migration testing- is done to ensure that the software can be moved from older system
infrastructures to current system infrastructures without any issues.
6. Functional Testing – Also known as functional completeness testing, Functional Testing
involves trying to think of any possible missing functions. Testers might make a list of
additional functionalities that a product could have to improve it during functional
testing.
7. Hardware/Software Testing – IBM refers to Hardware/Software testing as “HW/SW
Testing”. This is when the tester focuses his/her attention on the interactions between
the hardware and software during system testing.

What Types of System Testing Should Testers Use?


There are over 50 different types of system testing. The specific types used by a tester
depend on several variables. Those variables include:

Who the tester works for – This is a major factor in determining the types of system
testing a tester will use. Methods used by large companies are different than that used
by medium and small companies.
Time available for testing – Ultimately, all 50 testing types could be used. Time is often
what limits us to using only the types that are most relevant for the software project.
Resources available to the tester – Of course some testers will not have the necessary
resources to conduct a testing type. For example, if you are a tester working for a large
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