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big bang testing
subject			fact

big bang testing	can work well on small systems
	has definition An inappropriate approach to integration testing in which you take the entire integrated system and test it as a unit
	is a subtopic of 10.9 - Strategies for Testing Large Systems
	is a kind of integration testing
	may not work well on larger systems because it may be hard to tell in which subsystem the defect lies when a failure occurs
integration testing	has advantage when you find a problem, you can find the defect more easily because you have a better idea in which subsystem to look
	is better than big bang testing for large systems
testing	can find defects whose consequences are obvious but which are buried in complex code, and thus will be hard to detect when inspecting
	involves thinking of what could go wrong without actually studying the software
	requires attention to detail
process	see also process^2