System Integration Testing (SIT) is the testing of the subsystems, as a whole, to ensure that they work as a system.

It is accomplished whenever multiple systems cross functionality & external interface level testing is required. Also, verifies that the system is integrated to any external or third party systems defined in the system requirements. When it comes: Unit testing-> Integration testing -> System testing -> System integration testing. Example: I would like to explain about this SIT by taking a banking application: consider ICICI online banking application(these assumption may not be true in real applicationi of ICICI): Hope the reader know about the Loans: let's us consider that a person came to take a personal loan from the bank How the bank gives the loan it will consider certain criterias like his previous bank statements his balances, his properties, credit card bill payments etc etc.. 1) unit testing: the developer will test the application( front end) after he is done with the code. 2) Integration testing: considering this as a client server application. Testing whether the front end information (like values, addresses etc) are reflecting in the back end bye checking at the back end and vise versa by checking at the front end. 3)System testing: testing this application (system) as a whole and based on the functionality. checking whether the info giving at the front end is reflecting again at the

front end where ever necessary. 4)System integration testing: suppose in this appication to generate the instrest information , payment information , etc if we are using some other application which is not related to this application but integrated to this to fulfill some task so testing this all functionally as a whole. still if you need any further info plz post again, thanks.