From the course: Software Testing: Exploratory Testing
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Functional testing
From the course: Software Testing: Exploratory Testing
Functional testing
- [Instructor] Functional testing is when we test the functionality of a system. We're trying to see what it does or what things it's supposed to do that it does not do. Functional testing is probably what we intuitively think of when we think of testing. We're trying to see if the software does what it's supposed to do. Does my word processor let me type, can I make a word bold using the bold tool? Does the indent tool properly indent my words? These are all examples of functional tests. At its heart, functional testing is about how software changes things. I give it some inputs, for example, I highlight some text and type control B, and the software does some work and produces a certain output, in this case, bolded text. I find it helpful actually to go back to my grade school math concepts when I was introduced to mathematical functions. We can think of it as a black box where it takes in some inputs and then the…
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