.. Continuing the Beginners Guide to Software Testing series
The following basic techniques are employed during black box testing:
- Equivalence Class
- Boundary Value Analysis
- Error Guessing
- For each piece of the specification, generate one or more equivalence Class
- Label the classes as “Valid” or “Invalid”
- Generate one test case for each Invalid Equivalence class
- Generate a test case that covers as many Valid Equivalence Classes as possible
An input condition for Equivalence Class:
- A specific numeric value
- A range of values
- A set of related values
- A Boolean condition
Equivalence classes can be defined using the following guidelines:
- If an input condition specifies a range, one valid and two invalid equivalence class are defined.
- If an input condition requires a specific value, one valid and two invalid equivalence classes are defined.
- If an input condition specifies a member of a set, one valid and one invalid equivalence classes are defined.
- If an input condition is Boolean, one valid and one invalid classes are defined.
Boundary Value Analysis
- Generate test cases for the boundary values.
- Minimum Value, Minimum Value + 1, Minimum Value -1
- Maximum Value, Maximum Value + 1, Maximum Value – 1
Error Guessing.
- Generating test cases against to the specification.
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