Testing

Testing is the process of executing a program with the intention of finding errors (bugs). By error I mean any case in which a program's actual results fail to match the expected results. The criteria of the expected results may not include just the correctness of the program; they may also include other attributes, such as usability, reliability, and robustness. The process of testing may be manual, automated, or a mixture of both techniques.

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Correctness, Robustness, and Reliability Correctness refers to the ability of a program to produce expected results when the program is given a set of valid input data. Robustness is the ability of a program to cope up with invalid data or operations. Reliability is the ability of a program ...

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