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Integration testing

Integration testing

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Integration testing

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- With the surface level of the application tested by manual and UI automation, a QA engineer might want to move on to test the application from another perspective. Integration testing focuses on the interaction between components at lower layers of the application. This level of testing covers similar scenarios as we've seen with manual and UI automation testing, but doesn't look at what's happening at the UI level as a result. Instead, integration tests see how the system reacts to certain actions. Integration tests have some knowledge of how the system works internally, and because of that they are a type of gray box testing. QAs or developers usually write these tests during the build and test phase. Take for example the scenario of searching for a one way flight. Here we can send a request to search for a flight providing the flight parameters to the server directly instead of performing the action from the UI.…

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