Re-Structuring the directory for more better understanding of test types

Change-Id: I9284eb7ddaf727eef2d107e1e886fc60ec760446
Signed-off-by: Shwetha Panduranga <spandura@redhat.com>

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+Functional Testing:
+    Process of validating that the software conforms to its specifications and
+    correctly performs its required functions.
+
+    This entails a series of feature by feature validation of behavior using
+    a wide range of normal and erroneous input data.
+
+    Functional testing divided in 3 categories:
+    - Build Validation tests:
+        Build Verification Test (BVT), also known as Build Acceptance Test,
+        is a set of tests run on each new build of a software to verify that
+        the build is testable before the build is released into further testing.
+
+    - Smoke Testing:
+        A subset of test cases that are designed to broadly and minimally
+        test to confirm that changes in the code of a particular build
+        function as expected and do not break an entire build.
+
+    - Regression:
+        Process of retesitng a build after bug fixes and code changes to
+        find any unexpected loss of functionality in the new code base.