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Software Testing

Experience Based Testing & It’s Techniques

Chapter 5:
Dynamic Analysis-Test Design Techniques
Experience Based Testing
Experience Based Testing
 Besides the systematic approaches, intuitive determination of test cases
should be performed.
 People’s knowledge, skills and background are of prime importance to the
test conditions and test cases.
 Tester verifies and validates the software product quality
 Proper strategy and documentation plan along with the gained experience
 If used wisely may yield large success to the testers
When experience based testing is
required?
 Non-availability of requirements and specifications.
 Limited Knowledge of the Software product.
 Inadequate specification
 Restricted amount of time, to perform testing.
Experience Based Testing
Techniques
Error Guessing
 Technique of guessing and detecting the potential defects
 Tester identify the vulnerable areas of the software product
 This technique may be considered as a risk analysis method.
 Tester assigns each area with low-risk, medium-risk and high-risk
defect areas
Checklist Based Testing
 Based on the pre-planned “to-do” list of tasks called a checklist
 Experienced tester based on his past experience prepares the checklist
 Checklist reminds the tester of what to be tested
 Checklist prepared by a tester is not the static and the final list
 Ensures the complete test coverage in this testing.
 Commonly used testing checklists are:
Exploratory Testing
 It is used when basis for test design, are of low quality, are obsolete, or do not exist at all.

 Approach is the test activities in exploratory testing are executed nearly in parallel.

 Tester plans and designs what to be tested next while execution of the software.

 It is hands on approach in which testers are involved in minimum planning and maximum test execution

 Test charter for certain elements of program is created. (tasks or functions). While executing test charter these questions arise

- Why? (What is the goal of the test run?)

- What? (What is to be tested?)

- How? (Which testing method should be used?)

- What?( What kind of problems should be found?)


 Key aspect of exploratory testing is learning.

- Software

- Uses

- Strengths

- Weaknesses
 Example : shopping website
Attack Testing
 Fault attack
 Direct focused evaluation by attempt to force specific failures to occur
 Principle of attack is based on interaction between software and its environment, including UI, OS
with kernel, APIs and file systems.
 Interactions are based on data exchanges, and misalignment in those can be the cause of a failure.
 Software attacks (sometimes called fault attacks) are focused on trying to induce a specific type of
failure.
 The faults are injected into the software. Two types of injections:
 Compile time injection

- source code is altered to inject simulated faults e.g changing b = b + 1 to b = b – 1


Runtime time injection

- software is triggered to inject the fault into the running software.


Choosing a Test Technique
Which technique is best?
Choice test techniques to use depends on a number of internal and external factors
Internal Factors:

• Models used

• Tester knowledge and experience

• Likely defects

• Test objective

• Documentation

• Life cycle model


Choosing a Test Technique
External Factors:
• Risk
• Customer I contractual requirements
• Type of system
• Regulatory requirements
• Time and budget

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