0 a situation in which everything happens as it is supposed to, with no faults:
The happy path is meant to describe the ideal process, without any exceptions or alternate paths.
The happy path for getting into the system would be that the user already has an account, knows their credentials, enters them correctly, the system authenticates the user, and they can access the system.
A vast number of processes can have a complex happy path that may have alternatives built into them.
We’d like to think that the happy path is the only path in these interactions, but the reality is that failures are bound to appear.
Happy Path testing is a procedure where the test uses the known input, executes without any exception and produces the expected output.