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Different Levels of Testing

The levels of software testing involve the different methodologies, which can be used
while we are performing the software testing.

In software testing, we have four different levels of testing, which are as discussed
below:

Level1: Unit Testing


Unit testing is the first level of software testing, which is used to test if software
modules are satisfying the given requirement or not.

The first level of testing involves analyzing each unit or an individual component of
the software application.

Unit testing is also the first level of functional testing. The primary purpose of
executing unit testing is to validate unit components with their performance.

A unit component is an individual function or regulation of the application, or we can


say that it is the smallest testable part of the software. The reason of performing the
unit testing is to test the correctness of inaccessible code.

Unit testing will help the test engineer and developers in order to understand the base
of code that makes them able to change defect causing code quickly. The developers
implement the unit.

Level2: Integration Testing


The second level of software testing is the integration testing. The integration testing
process comes after unit testing.

It is mainly used to test the data flow from one module or component to other
modules.

In integration testing, the test engineer tests the units or separate components or
modules of the software in a group.

The primary purpose of executing the integration testing is to identify the defects at
the interaction between integrated components or units.

When each component or module works separately, we need to check the data flow
between the dependent modules, and this process is known as integration testing.
We only go for the integration testing when the functional testing has been completed
successfully on each application module.

In simple words, we can say that integration testing aims to evaluate the accuracy of
communication among all the modules.

Level3: System Testing


The third level of software testing is system testing, which is used to test the
software's functional and non-functional requirements.

It is end-to-end testing where the testing environment is parallel to the production


environment. In the third level of software testing, we will test the application as a
whole system.

To check the end-to-end flow of an application or the software as a user is known


as System testing.

In system testing, we will go through all the necessary modules of an application and
test if the end features or the end business works fine, and test the product as a
complete system.

In simple words, we can say that System testing is a sequence of different types of
tests to implement and examine the entire working of an integrated software
computer system against requirements.
Level4: Acceptance Testing
The last and fourth level of software testing is acceptance testing, which is used to
evaluate whether a specification or the requirements are met as per its delivery.

The software has passed through three testing levels (Unit Testing, Integration
Testing, System Testing). Some minor errors can still be identified when the end-user
uses the system in the actual scenario.

In simple words, we can say that Acceptance testing is the squeezing of all the testing
processes that are previously done.

The acceptance testing is also known as User acceptance testing (UAT) and is done
by the customer before accepting the final product.

Usually, UAT is done by the domain expert (customer) for their satisfaction and checks
whether the application is working according to given business scenarios and real-
time scenarios.

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