System Testing

What is system testing ???

 System testing of software or hardware is
testing conducted on a complete, integrated
system to evaluate the system's compliance
with its specified requirements.
 System testing is carried out by specialists
testers or independent testers.
 System testing should investigate both
functional and non-functional requirements of
the testing.
What is Functional
requirement?
 Business Rules
 Transaction corrections, adjustments and
cancellations
 Administrative functions
 Authentication
 Authorization levels
 External Interfaces
 Certification Requirements
 Reporting Requirements
 Legal or Regulatory Requirements
Non-Functional requirement

 Performance  Security

 Scalability  Regulatory

 Capacity  Manageability

 Availability  Environmental

 Reliability  Data Integrity

 Recoverability  Usability

 Maintainability  Interoperability

 Serviceability
What is the Functional What is the Non-
requirement of this Functional requirement
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Types of System testing??
 Black box testing
 White box testing
 Gray box testing
Black box testing
 A method of software testing that verifies the
functionality of an application without having
specific knowledge of the application’s
code/internal structure.
 It is also known as functional testing.
 Tests are based on requirements and
functionality.
White box testing….
 Itis a method of testing software that tests
internal structures or workings of an
application, as opposed to its functionality
 also known as clear box testing, glass box
testing, transparent box testing, and
structural testing
Gray testing …..
 Itis a combination of white-box testing and
black-box testing.
 The aim of this testing is to search for the
defects if any due to improper structure or
improper usage of applications.
 For a complete software examination, both
white box and black box tests are required.
 Difference between white and
black box testing……
Black- box testing White-box testing

1) Here the internal structure/ 1) Here the internal structure/

design/ implementation of the item design/ implementation of the item
being tested is NOT known to the being tested is known to the tester.
tester.
2) Mainly applicable to higher levels 2) Mainly applicable to lower levels
of testing. of testing.
3)Programming knowledge is
3)Programming knowledge is not
required.
required.

4)Implementation knowledge is not 4)Implementation knowledge is

required. required.

5) This testing is done by 5) Black box testing is done by

Independent Software Testers Software Developers
Activity network for system testing
 Active networking is a communication pattern
that allows packets flowing through a
telecommunications network to dynamically
modify the operation of the network.
Activity network for system testing
 A testplan entails the following activities.
 1. Prepare test plan.
 2. Specify conditions for user acceptance
testing.
 3. Prepare test data for program testing.
 4. Prepare test data for transaction path testing.
 5. Plan user training.
 6. Compile/assemble programs.
 7. Prepare job performance aids.
 8. Prepare operational documents.
Design specification for test plan
 Test Design Specification
The test design is the first stage in developing
the tests for software testing projects. It records
what needs to be tested, and is derived from
the documents that come into the testing stage,
such as requirements and designs. It records
which features of a test item are to be tested,
and how a successful test of these features
would be recognized.
Design specification for test plan
 Test Design Specification Identifier

• Unique “short” name for the case

• Version date and version number of the case
• Version Author and contact information
• Revision history
Design specification for test plan
Features to be Tested

• Features
• Attributes and Characteristics
• Groupings of features
• Level of testing appropriate to test item if this
test design specification covers more that
one level of testing
• Reference to the original documentation where
this test objective (feature) was obtained.
Design specification for test plan
 Approach Refinements

• Selection of specific test techniques
• Reasons for technique selection
• Method(s) for results analysis
• Tools etc.
• Relationship of the test items/features to the levels of
testing
• Summarize any common information that may relate to
multiple test cases or procedures.
Centralizing common information reduces document size,
and simplifies maintenance.
• Shared Environment
• Common setup/recovery
• Case dependencies
Design specification for test plan
 Test Identification
• Identification of each test case with a short
description of the case, it’s test level or any
other appropriate information required to describe
the test relationship.
• Identification of each test procedure with a short
description of the case, it’s test level or
any other appropriate information required to
describe the test relationship.

Design specification for test plan
 Feature Pass/Fail Criteria
Describe the criteria for assessing the feature
or set of features and whether the test(s) were
successful of not.
Performance Criteria
performance characteristics.
 Performance Acceptance Criteria
 Performance Testing Objectives
 Performance Objectives
 Performance Requirements
 Performance Goal
 Performance Targets
 Performance Thresholds
 Performance Budgets or Allocations
Performance Criteria
Testing types

 Load testing
 Stress testing
 Soak testing
 Spike testing
 Configuration testing
 Isolation testing
Performance Criteria
Sources of Performance Acceptance Criteria
When identifying performance acceptance criteria, consider the
following:
 Business requirements
 User expectations
 Contractual obligations
 Regulatory compliance criteria and industry standards
 Service level agreements
 Resource utilization targets
 Various and diverse, realistic workload models
 The entire range of anticipated load conditions
 Conditions of system stress
 Entire scenarios and component activities
 Key performance indicators
 Previous releases of the application
 Competing applications
 Optimization objectives
 Safety factors, headroom and scalability
 Schedule, staffing, budget, resources and other priorities
factors that determine system
quality
Flexibility
 Flexibility is the ability of software to
add/modify/remove functionality without damaging
current system.
Extensibility
 Like subset of flexibility.
 one of the most important properties of quality
system.
Maintainability
 Effort required to fix and test the error. The more
correct and useful documentation exists, the more
maintainability can be performed.
factors that determine system
quality
Performance and Efficiency
 Performance is mostly about response time of
the system.
 It is assessed by processing speed, response
time, resource utilization, throughput and
efficiency.
factors that determine system
quality
Scalability
 A scalable system responds user actions in an
acceptable amount of time, even if load increases.
 There are two types of scalabilities
vertical scalability :more hardware may be added
for handling increasing user transaction, but the
architecture should not change while doing this.
horizontal scalability: Ability of running on multiple,
increasing count of machines is multiple processing.
factors that determine system
quality
Availability, Robustness, Fault Tolerance and Reliability:
 A robust software should not lose its availability even in
most failure states.
Usability and Accessability :

 User interfaces are the only visible parts of software

according to the viewpoint of user.” The ease with which a
user is able to navigate to the system.
Platform Compatibility and Portability
 A quality software should run on as much various platforms
as it can.
 Portability is the ease with which a software can be
migrated from one environment to the other.
 factors that determine system
quality
Testability and Managability:
 Effort required to test a program so that it
performs its intended function. Creating a
successful logging system is another very
important issue about managability.
Security:
 Security is a very important issue on any
system design. This may include authorization
and authentication techniques, network attack
protections, data encryption and
factors that determine system
quality
Functionality and Correctness:
 Degree to which software satisfies stated
needs. Functionality (or correctness) is the
conformity of the software with actual
requirements and specifications. Correctness
is the extent to which a program satisfies its
specifications.
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system testing……
 Expected outputs
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system testing……

Input Testing
 On the basis of expected outputs we have to input
the data to the system. It should be check that our
inputs are correct. If our inputs are wrong or any
bug in them we will not be able to get the expected
outputs
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system testing…….
Installation Testing
 Every software or any system to run we need
to install it or setup it for doing any work. If we
have any problem to in install part then our
system will not work properly even we can’t
access the software. So this part is very
important. And we have to check that is there
any problem in installation or not.
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system testing……..
Graphical User Interface Testing
 To generate a set of test cases, test designers
attempt to cover all the functionality of the
system and fully exercise the GUI itself. The
difficulty in accomplishing this task is twofold:
to deal with domain size and with sequences.
In addition, the tester faces more difficulty
when they have to do regression testing.
Example of different types of
system testing………..
Regression Testing
 Regression testing is a type of software testing that
verifies that software that was previously developed
and tested still performs correctly after it was changed
or interfaced with other software. Changes may include
software enhancements, patches, configuration
changes, etc. During regression testing new software
bugs or regressions may be uncovered. Sometimes a
software change impact analysis is performed to
determine what areas could be affected by the
proposed changes. These areas may include functional
and non-functional areas of the system.
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system testing………….
Usability Testing:
 Usability testing is a technique used in user-
centered interaction design to evaluate a product
by testing it on users. This can be seen as an
irreplaceable usability practice, since it gives
direct input on how real users use the system.
This is in contrast with usability inspection
methods where experts use different methods to
evaluate a user interface without involving users.
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system testing…………..
Software Performance Testing
 performance testing is in general, a testing
practice performed to determine how a
system performs in terms of responsiveness
and stability under a particular workload. It
can also serve to investigate measure,
validate or verify other quality attributes of the
system, such as scalability, reliability and
resource usage.
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system testing…………
Compatibility Testing
 Compatibility testing, part of software non-functional
tests, is testing conducted on the application to
evaluate the application's compatibility with the
computing environment
Exception Handling
 Exception handling is the process of responding to
the occurrence, during computation, of exceptions –
anomalous or exceptional conditions requiring special
processing – often changing the normal flow of
program execution
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system testing………..
Load Testing
 Load testing is the process of putting demand on
a software system or computing device and
measuring its response. Load testing is performed
to determine a system's behavior under both
normal and anticipated peak load conditions. It
helps to identify the maximum operating capacity
of an application as well as any bottlenecks and
determine which element is causing degradation.
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system testing………….
Stress Testing
 Stress testing (sometimes called torture
testing) is a form of deliberately intense or
thorough testing used to determine the
stability of a given system or entity. It involves
testing beyond normal operational capacity,
often to a breaking point, in order to observe
the results. Reasons can include:
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system testing………..
Security Testing
 Security testing is a process intended to
reveal flaws in the security mechanisms of an
information system that protect data and
maintain functionality as intended. Due to the
logical limitations of security testing, passing
security testing is not an indication that no
flaws exist or that the system adequately
satisfies the security requirements.
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system testing…………
Recovery Testing
 Recovery testing is the activity of testing how
well an application is able to recover from
crashes, hardware failures and other similar
problems.
Output Testing
 In every testing part ultimately we are testing the
outputs. After check all the testing part and fix all
the bugs we have to re-check the system to
ensure that our system working correctly.
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