What is software testing ?

What is software testing ?

"The design and implementation of a special kind of software system: one
that exercises another software system with the intend of finding bugs.
This system automatically applies and evaluates the tests.

Manual testing, of course still plays a role. But testing is mainly
about the development of an automated system to implement an application
specific test design." -- Robert V Binder 2000

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Is this <em>all</em> that software testing is?  Can we think of other
things that software testing might be?

---Michael B.

DevelopSense - Software Testing in Plain English
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