The big testing guideline

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IntroductionBased on my experiences for a lot a of people there’s a big chaos in their head about software testing, sometimes even for programmers and project managers. That’s why I decided to write a post which is giving a rough overview about the different ways of software testing.As I started my carrier I was working for a small start-up. There software testing meant, that someone is starting the software, does some random clicks and checks if something strange happens or not. Later on I changed to automotive business. In this field testing is really strict. But all what I learnt: the software itself determines the right testing process. It is up to that: how safety critical is your software, who will use it, how complex is it etc.There are several ways of testing, these methods can be either automated or manual, functional and non-functional, black box, grey box or white box  and it can be on several different levels (unit testing, component testing etc.). For each project you n…