what are external interface in test plan

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Permalink Reply by Savita Munde on June 26, 2012 at 8:57am

Before I would answer 100% confirm answer, please tell me first what are internal interface in test plan?

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Permalink Reply by Abdul manan on June 26, 2012 at 11:25am

thanks Savita, i have added internal interfaces in the same thread

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Permalink Reply by raghunath on June 26, 2012 at 10:38am

here my answer abdul .....In Test Planning  - Identify Interfaces With Other Systems 

In this step, you define the interfaces with other systems both internal and external to your
organization. To do this, you will need to identify the transactions that are passed between
systems. For interfaces internal to your organization, the information required for this
identification will likely be easier to obtain than those external to your organization.

Identifying interfaces to be tested..

System: Payroll System

# Interfaces to be Tested                       Other System(s)                  Internal/ External               Priority
1. Hours worked from timekeeping system  Timekeeping                         I                                  High

2.Taxes paid to IRS                                IRS tax reporting                       E                               High

 
3.Sick days used in year to personnel            Personnel                          I                                  Low

Thanks,

Raghu

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Permalink Reply by Abdul manan on June 26, 2012 at 11:25am

thanks dear 

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Permalink Reply by Abdul manan on June 26, 2012 at 11:23am

Thanks to reply Raghunath and Savita

Raghunath you are absolutely right, i agree with you, my opinion and google search have same answers that when your application communicate with other application then this other application consider as external interfaces and when your application communicate internally with other components of your application then this is called internal  interfaces

External interfaces

Application have payment transaction method through Paypal, American express, visa card, Master card, so when we done payment through these different gateways, these are external interfaces

From our application when we share something on facebook, twitter (facebook and twitter sharing is external interfaces)

Internal interfaces

Internal interfaces are like login screen, registration screen for new user

Please correct me if my understanding is not on right path

(Actually confusion create when i asked this question to my friends and he said that external interfaces for test plan is bug tracking tool, automation tool, test management tool and bug reports etc)

Thanks again for your knowledge sharing,

Abdul

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Permalink Reply by raghunath on June 26, 2012 at 12:13pm

you are on right path :) ur correct ...!!

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Permalink Reply by Siddiq on June 28, 2012 at 10:50pm

External interfaces are all those applications, services which your application interacts with and you don't test them as you do your application.

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