Is there a standard sequence of testing steps in software development?
First all of all, I want to clear up some terms. Alpha and Beta are statuses applied to “builds,” or testable, full releases of a piece of software. Usually, alpha and beta builds are near production, all builds prior tend to have the name of the software and the date tacked to the end to describe the build. Unit testing is the testing of units, or individual, smaller segments of code. Unit testing allows more input/output to be tested, as the entirety of the program need not be reconfigured. Integration testing, on the other hand, is the testing of an entire system, comprised of all its units. Integration testing would involve manually going through a certain build (like alpha or beta) to test different inputs for bugs. “User acceptance testing” is generally a Graphical User Interface/functionality test. At this point, the backend code is most likely stable (and most likely won’t break), but the program is now being modified and adjusted to meet the explicit needs of the user. How men
