What Are Functional and Non-Functional Testing?
Functional and non-functional testing occur at different times and have different expectations. Functional testing typically occurs after an application has been deployed, with the release management team putting the application through thorough testing in order to identify and correct small errors. The application’s development team is in charge of performing functional testing after each new section of code is completed or a section of code is taken out and upgraded or altered.
In the development life cycle, functional testing normally occupies the longest stretch of time. It is a much smarter idea to perform functional testing in piecemeal mode, where each new section of code undergoes testing before its integration with the next section begins. Some organizations put all the code together and then perform functional testing on the entire application to see what is discovered. This can very easily lead to a lot more of a...
