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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.