System testing is nothing but testing the system as a whole

Generally we do system testing, once the total project is 
ready to test. We setup the total project in customer 
configuration and test the project as a whole. This is the 
last stage of testing at offshore, which covers both 
functional and non-functional testing.

The goal of System Testing is to make it pass in the User 
Acceptance Testing.

It is similar like the following:

The goal of Integration Testing is to make it pass in the 
System Testing.

Cheers

Ram

I think System testing's main goal is "to test the whole 
project with all the hardware and software support".
Most of the time before deliver the project, team members
do the system testing in live environment just for testing 
with dummy data.

In My knowledge tesing the system with all aspects like 
functionality, performance, security and  user interfaces 
are working according to customer requrements.

Hai,

According to me system testing is nothing but to check 
whether the entire app is built according to customer req 
or not.
the main reason to go for system testing is ,In system 
testing we can find out product level defects and in build 
the confidence before the product released to client

Primary goal of system testing is to find out compatibilty 
issues on different OS platforms such as Windows, Linux, 
Solaris and MAC. Because most of application faces 
compatibity issues of different oS flavors such as Windows 
98, WIndows 2000, Windows XP and now Vista/LOnghorn.

goal of system testing is to validate the software product 
against requirement specification.

this stage is intended to find the defects that can be 
exposed by testing the entire system.

a series of different tests each test having different 
purpose are done such that together and all system elements 
have been properly integrated or not.
 
it checks that the system performs all its functional 
requirements and it satisfying all its non-functinal 
requirements or not