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'''Software testing''' is the act of checking whether [[software]] satisfies expectations.

Software testing can provide objective or subjective, independent information about the [[Quality (business)|quality]] of software and the [[risk]] of its failure to a [[User (computing)|user]] or sponsor.<ref name="Kaner 1">{{Cite conference |last=Kaner |first=Cem |author-link=Cem Kaner |date=November 17, 2006 |title=Exploratory Testing |url=https://kaner.com/pdfs/ETatQAI.pdf |conference=Quality Assurance Institute Worldwide Annual Software Testing Conference |___location=Orlando, FL |access-date=November 22, 2014}}</ref>

Software testing can determine the [[Correctness (computer science)|correctness]] of software for specific [[Scenario (computing)|scenarios]], but cannot determine correctness for all scenarios.<ref name="pan">{{Cite web |last=Pan |first=Jiantao |date=Spring 1999 |title=Software Testing |url=http://www.ece.cmu.edu/~koopman/des_s99/sw_testing/ |access-date=November 21, 2017 |publisher=Carnegie Mellon University |type=coursework}}</ref> <ref name="Kaner2">{{Cite book |last1=Kaner |first1=Cem |title=Testing Computer Software |last2=Falk |first2=Jack |last3=Nguyen |first3=Hung Quoc |publisher=John Wiley and Sons |year=1999 |isbn=978-0-471-35846-6 |edition=2nd |___location=New York |author-link=Cem Kaner}}</ref> It cannot find all [[software bug|bugs]].