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Test Case Writing

This document provides information on test case writing. It discusses the software testing life cycle including test planning, designing test cases, executing tests, and reporting defects. It describes what a test plan is and explains it contains the scope and approach for testing a project. The test plan identifies what units need individual testing and what features will be tested. The document also discusses what a test case specification entails, including the requirement being tested, steps to execute the test, expected outcomes, and how to determine if a set of test cases is sufficient to find most defects while keeping the set small.

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Test Case Writing

This document provides information on test case writing. It discusses the software testing life cycle including test planning, designing test cases, executing tests, and reporting defects. It describes what a test plan is and explains it contains the scope and approach for testing a project. The test plan identifies what units need individual testing and what features will be tested. The document also discusses what a test case specification entails, including the requirement being tested, steps to execute the test, expected outcomes, and how to determine if a set of test cases is sufficient to find most defects while keeping the set small.

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Test Case Writing

Content

• Testing Life cycle


• Test Plan
• Test Scenarios
• Test cases
• Examples
• Practical question
Testing Life Cycle
Project Initiation

System Study
Analysis
Test Plan
Regression Test

Design Test Cases


Report Defects

Execute Test Cases


( manual /automated )
Test Plan

A test plan is a systematic


approach to testing a system
i.e. software. The plan
typically contains a detailed
understanding of what the
eventual testing workflow
will be.
Test Plan…
• Testing usually starts with test plan and ends
with acceptance testing

• Test plan is a general document that defines the


scope and approach for testing for the whole
project

• Inputs are SRS, project plan, design

• Test plan identifies what levels of testing will be


done, what units will be tested and etc.

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Test Plan…
• Test plan usually contains
▫ Test unit specs: what units need to be tested
separately
▫ Features to be tested: functionality, performance,
usability,…
▫ Approach: criteria to be used, when to stop, how
to evaluate, etc
▫ Test deliverables
▫ Schedule and task allocation
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Test case specifications
A test case is a specific procedure
of testing a particular
requirement.

It will include:
• Identification of specific
requirement to be tested
• Specific steps to execute test
• Parameter values for the test
• expected outcome of the test
Test case specifications
• Test plan focuses on approach; does not deal
with details of testing a unit
• Test case specification has to be done separately
for each unit
• Based on the plan (approach, features,..) test
cases are determined for a unit
• Expected outcome also needs to be specified for
each test case

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Test case specifications…
• Together the set of test cases should detect most
of the defects

• Would like the set of test cases to detect any


defects, if it exists

• Would also like set of test cases to be small - each


test case consumes effort

• Determining a reasonable set of test case is the


most challenging task of testing
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Test case specifications…
• The effectiveness and cost of testing depends on the set
of test cases
• Q: How to determine if a set of test cases is good? I.e. the
set will detect most of the defects, and a smaller set
cannot catch these defects
• No easy way to determine goodness; usually the set of
test cases is reviewed by experts
• This requires test cases be specified before testing – a
key reason for having test case specs
• Test case specs are essentially a table

Testing
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Test Case TC_YM_001
Name

Test Script The objective of this Test script is to check whether the user is successfully able
Description to log in the yahoo mail and check the e-mail .

Components Login form page and Inbox module of yahoo website are tested
Tested

Computer should be connected to the Internet. Yahoo website


Entry Criteria http://mail.yahoo.com/ should be accessible.

Pass Criteria All steps should be Pass.

Start Time:
Tester Name:
Test Date: End Time:
Comments:
Pass (Yes / No):

Test ID Description Action Test Inputs Expected Actual Result Comments


outcome outcome
Functional Testing
• The process of checking the behavior of the
application.
• It is geared to functional requirements of an
application.
• To check the correctness of outputs.
How to choose good functional test
cases?

▫ Test all possible outputs


▫ Test both valid and invalid inputs
▫ Test around boundaries
▫ Test extreme values
▫ Test input syntax
▫ Guess at possible errors
Test case scenarios/test cases
Do You Have
Any Questions?
Group activity

Create manual test cases for the given interfaces


1. Account creation
2. User Authentication
3. Compose an email

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