TY - JFULL AU - P. Prema and B. Ramadoss PY - 2008/7/ TI - A New Type of Integration Error and its Influence on Integration Testing Techniques T2 - International Journal of Computer and Information Engineering SP - 1862 EP - 1869 VL - 2 SN - 1307-6892 UR - https://publications.waset.org/pdf/8525 PU - World Academy of Science, Engineering and Technology NX - Open Science Index 18, 2008 N2 - Testing is an activity that is required both in the development and maintenance of the software development life cycle in which Integration Testing is an important activity. Integration testing is based on the specification and functionality of the software and thus could be called black-box testing technique. The purpose of integration testing is testing integration between software components. In function or system testing, the concern is with overall behavior and whether the software meets its functional specifications or performance characteristics or how well the software and hardware work together. This explains the importance and necessity of IT for which the emphasis is on interactions between modules and their interfaces. Software errors should be discovered early during IT to reduce the costs of correction. This paper introduces a new type of integration error, presenting an overview of Integration Testing techniques with comparison of each technique and also identifying which technique detects what type of error. ER -