What do u mean by Positive and Negative testing & whatz r
the diff's between them .Can anyone explain with an
example .

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Answer / suneel reddy

Positive Testing: Testing the application functionality
with valid inputs and verifying that output is correct
Negative testing: Testing the application functionality
with invalid inputs and verifying the output
Difference is nothing but How the application behaves when
we enter some invalid inputs
Suppose if it accepts invalid input the application
functionality is wrong

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What do u mean by Positive and Negative testing & whatz r the diff's between them .Can an..

Answer / saurabh

Example of positive Testing is u have one login form where
u have fields like name , password etc and now u r checking
for name field u enter right character(VALID DATA) in that
name field this is called positive testing and when u r
entering wrong data(INVALID DATA) in that name field is
called negative testing.

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What do u mean by Positive and Negative testing & whatz r the diff's between them .Can an..

Answer / v.l. pianmoia

Positive testing tries to prove that a given product
does what is suppose to do.When a test case verifies the
requirements of aa product with a set of expected output,
it is called Positive test case.
E.g :- A product delivering an error when it is expected
to give an error, is also part of positive testing.



Negative testing is done to show that the product
does not fail when an UNEXPECTED INPUT is given. A negative
test would be a product not delivering an error when it
should or delivering an error when it should not.

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Answer / sarath

positive test: testing aimed to show that s/w work ie with
valid inputs.this is also called as "test to pass'
-ve testing: testing aimed at showing s/w does't work.
which is also know as 'test to fail"
BVA is the best example of -ve testing.

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