Difference between regression testing and re-testing

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Difference between regression testing and re-testing..

Answer / ramu

Re-gression Testing:-which one can perform testing on the
functionality which is already tested before just to make
sure that this functionality is not effected when ever a new
change
(refinement or new addition of the functionality)is added to
the existing funtionality.

Re-testing:-It is conducted on application in order to
ensure the reproducability of an outcome or defect to rule
out environment issues and make to sure that the
fuctionality of an application is rhobust.

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Difference between regression testing and re-testing..

Answer / naveen

When a tester catches a bug he reports it to the
developer,than after the bug is fixed the retesting is done
of that new function only.

whereas Regression testing is of the entire system,entire
system is again tested according to the all conditions used
at the time of testing.it is done to ensure that the system
is working fine after the addition of the new function/
corrected bug.

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Difference between regression testing and re-testing..

Answer / koteswararao bodapati

Regression testing means cheking the whole functionality of
the application once again these can be done in the
following Situations
1.When Ever The tester find the defect and Post the defect
to Development team then when ever the developer fix the
Defect and send it to testing department then the tester has
to check the Defect functionality as well as Related
Functionality once again
2.When Ever Some New Changes Has Been done in the
Application Then We Need Check the Complete functionality of
the application once again

and The Retesting Means Testing the functionality of the
application with multiple set of inputs

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Difference between regression testing and re-testing..

Answer / shilpa churi

Regression Testing : To verify any fixes or changes may not
introduced new problem/error in the application.

Re-Testing: In software testing environment for every new
build spport must be change time to time. so we have the re-
test every new build verion in differernt enviroment to
look at whether it is working correct or not.

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Difference between regression testing and re-testing..

Answer / kiran k

REGRESSION TESTING:
We can check the new functionality of the application have
been incorporated correctly with out failing the existing
functionality.

RETESTING:
We can check the application with difference sets of data is
called.

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