Documentation, Testing, and Debugging   At this Web site, you can find a brief description of system testing that can help you remember the different elements of the testing process.

Bug Bounty Hunters   This article from Byte magazine begins with three important points about testing. 1) The cost of debugging software increases as you move through the software development process. 2) To ensure high quality products, testing needs to include validation and verification throughout the entire development process. 3) Testing costs a lot and can delay release of a product to market. The article offers automated software-testing tools as a partial solution to these problems and describes how they work.

Testing, Testing...A Rigorous Process   This InformationWeek article emphasizes the importance of building testing into the system development process. It addresses the complex issues involved in testing large client-server and Web database applications.