difference beween re testing and regression testing?

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difference beween re testing and regression testing?..

Answer / prakash

Amit - out 1000 test cases if 10 are failed. then those 10 are RETESTED and with the fixation of these 10 defects we perform an IMPACT ANALYSIS to find out the test cases which may get impacted becoz of these 10 defects and perform the REGRESSION Testing on all the selected test cases including the newly fixed defects

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difference beween re testing and regression testing?..

Answer / ashutosh

Re Testing- After getting fix in new build, just execute the same TC using same test data, same environment which has failed earlier.

Regression Testing - Need to test other related modules/functionality as well to insure that they are working fine after this fix.

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difference beween re testing and regression testing?..

Answer / sirisha

RETESTING: retesting means the process of re-executive the test cases after bug fixes just to make sure that defect is fixed or not.

REGRESSION:It is the retesting the application after the bug fixes just to make sure that bug has been fixed and its impact on the rest of the application.

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difference beween re testing and regression testing?..

Answer / lalit munola

RE-TESTING: we check for the particular bug and its
dependencies after it is said to be fixed.

REGRESSION TESTING: We check the entire system whether the
fixed bug make any adverse effect in the existing system or
not.

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difference beween re testing and regression testing?..

Answer / suneetha

regression testing: in this the deffected functionality and
its related functionalities are tested to check there any
new diffects are raised due to that change.

re testing: the diffected functionality only checked
whether it is rectified or not.

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difference beween re testing and regression testing?..

Answer / sunitha ,heartcom inc

retesting & regression testing:
retesting: retesting is conduct to test different
combinations of data i.e called retesting
regression testing:regression testing once the tester
report the bug after the developer resolve the bug and
developer should assign the build to tester after the test
engineer should test the build the modifying build is
working or not this process called Regression Testing

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difference beween re testing and regression testing?..

Answer / kris

hi ,
jyotsna and pranathi are right,,

Retesting : --

reexecution of testcases on same application build with
different input values is retesting.

regression Testting :

reexecution of testcases on modify form of build is called
regression testing..

ok,, bye.

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difference beween re testing and regression testing?..

Answer / lakkireddy lakshmidevi

Re Testing:Execution of test cases with different sets of
Test data(the data may be positive data, negative data or
we can say valid data or invalid data).

Regression Testing:Re execution of test cases on modified
build based on bug fix work.

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difference beween re testing and regression testing?..

Answer / pranathi

Retesting: The re-execution of test cases on same
application with multiple test data.

Regression testing: The re-execution of selected test cases
on modified build to ensure bug fix work.

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difference beween re testing and regression testing?..

Answer / jyotsna

RETESTING: Testing the application with multiple sets of
test data is Retesting.

REGRESSION TESTING: Test the bug fixes r working properly
as the specification and test, by fixing these bug any
other feature may get impacted (conduct impact analysis) is
regression testing.

Correct me if i'm wrong :)

Jyotsna.

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