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Who are ‘users’ in testing?

Having e.g. a system for booking flights, during UAT it is not being tested by real users (customers who will buy tickets) rather than people from the client side who will just simulate this. Are there any more specific terms to distinquish between real users (like end user) and users doing the UAT?

Functional testing in the verification

Yesterday my question How come verification does not include actual testing? created a lot of controversy, yet did not reveal the answer for related and very important question: does black box functional testing done by testers belong to verification or validation?

Testing vs QA – output?

I was trying to find a relevant source of information for the above, but I failed. What is the output of software testing? Some say its “list of bugs”, others say “answer whether or not the software conforms to what customer wanted”.
I know testing is a part of QA but not sure what is its aim and output in this context.

Is verification and validation part of testing process?

Based on many sources I do not believe the simple definition that aim of testing is to find as many bugs as possible – we test to ensure that it works or that it does not. E.g. followint are goals of testing form ISTQB: