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Static testing and Dynamic testing is two different approaches to testing available for developers and testers in the software development process. In order to get the most out of these tests, this has to be chosen carefully and it is important to understand the benefits and the limitations of each one.

Static testing is a test method where code are not being executed and it can be done manually or using a set of tools. This type of testing would check the syntax, required documentation and design of the code. Static testing also includes security testing to analyze the software for potential errors, code flaws, or vulnerabilities. This method can be start in the early development stage of the program, and it can be done on work documents like specification documents, design documents, web page contents, etc. Static testing techniques include:
-  Inspection: The main purpose of this is to find defections. This task can be reviewing the check lists, work documents, or code walkthroughs…

Black Box, White Box and Grey Box are there most common terms in testing as it is really important. These terms are selections of tests that developers have that is based on their purpose of testing, what is being tested, and they determine which what tools or technologies to be used in order to tackle to problem efficiently.

Firstly, let's talk about Black box testing. This type of test is really common on testing user interface. It treats the program as if it is a "black box", or refer to testing without knowing or be able to change the internal implementation. It is also known among developers as closed or opaque box. The advantage of this type of testing is pretty huge, as developers can focus more on how to test the feature, rather than having to get to know the internal code. It also needs low time to prepare, and designed to simulate the perspective of users. With those potential advantages, the trade off of Black Box testing is also huge, as it might have a chanc…

Path testing is widely used to design test cases. Path testing process has 4 steps, which is to draw control flow graph, calculate Cyclomatic Complexity, make set of paths, and then create test cases for the those paths, which would use this formula: E - N + 2P (where E is number of edges, N is number of vertices and P is program factor). Path testing usually use control flow graph, which would help developers find sets of linearly dependent paths of execution. Path testing also use Cyclomatic Complexity to determine the number of linearly independent paths and each path should be a separate test case.

Besides control flow graph, path testing can also use different techniques like decision to decision path, where control flow path can be broken into various decision to decision paths and collapse into individual nodes, and Independent paths. There are various advantages of path testing like making sure that tests are isolated and not redundant to each other, it helps developers focus …

Code coverage is a subject that has recently come up in my Testing class and it did catch my attention for its useful functionality. So what's code coverage? Code coverage is how much of the code that has been executed during the testing process. This process is not only check for every line of code, it also checks if all the branch of conditional and loops is covered. With this process in place, it would surely decrease the number of bugs.
With that being said, how would developers be able to apply this into their code? There are a lot of system and plugins out there that would help doing this job correctly, I will take JaCoCo plugins for Gradle as an example in this post, since I think it is a really good system that gives excellent reports. To enable JaCoCo, add this line to build.gradle:
 apply plugin: 'jacoco' 
What is greater about JaCoCo is that it let user define thresholds or conditions that the code coverage has to pass in order for the build system to return pass…