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- [Instructor] There are two sides to test execution. On one side, you have the actual performance of the test cases and cycles. The other is the documenting of the results of your testing. As you work on test cases, there needs to be documentation to track the progress of both sides. You will be working in tandem with developers who are waiting, watching, and wondering how their software is performing against your tests. Documentation is how you objectively share this data. When people hear the word documentation, it evokes images of stacks of papers. However, in our digital age, very little physical documentation actually exists. Documentation in this example is more about a process. It's the step that records the test execution and the results of that testing, an essential part of the quality process. It's how your development team and partners understand your output. You need to have a place where you can track your…

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