System testing, a.k.a. end-to-end (E2E) testing, is testing conducted on a complete
software system.
System testing describes testing at the system level to contrast to testing at the
system integration,
integration or
unit level.
System testing often serves the purpose of evaluating the system's compliance with its specified
requirements often from a
functional requirement specification (FRS), a
system requirement specification (SRS), another type of specification or multiple.
System testing can detect defects in the system as a whole.
System testing can verify the design, the behavior and even the believed expectations of the customer. It is also intended to test up to and beyond the bounds of specified software and hardware requirements.
Approaches
*
Destructive testing: tests are carried out to the specimen's failure, in order to understand a specimen's performance or material behaviour under different loads.
*
Nondestructive testing: analysis techniques to evaluate the properties of a material, component or system without causing damage.
*
Fault injection: A testing technique which stress the system in an unusual way to examine the system behavior.
[Moradi, Mehrdad, Bentley James Oakes, Mustafa Saraoglu, Andrey Morozov, Klaus Janschek, and Joachim Denil. "Exploring Fault Parameter Space Using Reinforcement Learning-based Fault Injection." (2020).]
See also
*
Automated testing
*
Automatic test equipment
*
Mobile-device testing
*
Quality control
Quality control (QC) is a process by which entities review the quality of all factors involved in production. ISO 9000 defines quality control as "a part of quality management focused on fulfilling quality requirements".
This approach plac ...
*
Software testing
Software testing is the act of checking whether software satisfies expectations.
Software testing can provide objective, independent information about the Quality (business), quality of software and the risk of its failure to a User (computin ...
*
Test case
*
Test fixture
A test fixture is a device used to consistently test some item, device, or piece of software. Test fixtures are used in the testing of electronics, software and physical devices.
Electronics
In testing electronic equipment such as circuit boa ...
*
Test plan
Notes
References
*
{{Software testing
Software testing
Hardware testing
Systems engineering
de:Softwaretest#Systemtest