From the course: Project Management: Technical Projects
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Managing technology testing
From the course: Project Management: Technical Projects
Managing technology testing
- Today's connected, all-access world means that testing is much more involved than it was a few years ago, and testing is a multi-dimensional exercise. Here are my primary areas of focus when testing technical components. When technical components are initially built, they're unit tested by the developer or engineer. This is the lowest level of testing to validate methods, hardware components, and software modules. Next, integration testing is performed to validate the touchpoints or interfaces between two components. Once several components have been unit tested, integration testing can verify any data being sent between them. Functional testing is where the fun begins. The technical products we produce need to accurately execute the functions they're designed to perform for the business. I used a software application recently that inappropriately applied the time zone where the vendor's cloud hosted server was located, rather than the time zone I was in. Not good. Test your…
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