Software Testing: Different categories of Testing

Colin But
4 min readMay 20, 2018

In software testing there are different types of testing categories. Whether you are doing just Functional Testing or performing Non-Functional Testing, their tests fall into different categories depending on what is your purpose is for the test execution.

System Test

The most basic of categories of software testing is good old System Testing. This is just very simply following a set of predefined test steps and executing those against the software in test.

Example:

A list of all test tests in a test suite would commonly be written as a test plan which details the information about the test.

An example of a test plan:

As you can see, you have listed the purpose of a test, the platform to execute the tests on, the expected result, and what the actual outcomes were.

Smoke Test

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