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Extreme C

You're reading from   Extreme C Taking you to the limit in Concurrency, OOP, and the most advanced capabilities of C

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Product type Paperback
Published in Oct 2019
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781789343625
Length 822 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Kamran Amini Kamran Amini
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Table of Contents (27) Chapters Close

Preface 1. Essential Features FREE CHAPTER 2. From Source to Binary 3. Object Files 4. Process Memory Structure 5. Stack and Heap 6. OOP and Encapsulation 7. Composition and Aggregation 8. Inheritance and Polymorphism 9. Abstraction and OOP in C++ 10. Unix – History and Architecture 11. System Calls and Kernels 12. The Most Recent C 13. Concurrency 14. Synchronization 15. Thread Execution 16. Thread Synchronization 17. Process Execution 18. Process Synchronization 19. Single-Host IPC and Sockets 20. Socket Programming 21. Integration with Other Languages 22. Unit Testing and Debugging 23. Build Systems 24. Other Books You May Enjoy
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26. Index

Software testing

Software testing is a big and important subject in computer programming, and it has its own specific terminology and many concepts. In this section, we are going to give you a very basic introduction to software testing. Our purpose is to define some terms that we are going to use in the first half of this chapter. Therefore, you should be aware that this is not a thorough chapter about testing and further study is strongly encouraged.

When it comes to testing software, the first question that comes to mind is, what are we testing, and what is this testing about? In general, we test an aspect of a software system. This aspect can be functional or non-functional. In other words, the aspect may be related to a certain functionality of the system, or it can be related to a certain variable of a system when performing a functionality. Next, we give some examples.

Functional testing is about testing a defined functionality requested as part of the functional...

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