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Test Cases and Coverage

A tester recently asked about creating an in-house testing process, wanting to know how to start writing test cases so that testing effort could be estimated. My reply—which could just as easily apply to a developer or business analysts in a testing role—went something like this: Test cases are not testing!  While that’s true, just saying so probably won’t help you very much, so let me offer an alternative to thinking … Read more

Which Test Cases Should I Automate?

When someone asks “I have a big suite of manual tests; which tests (or worse, which test cases) should I automate?”, I often worry about several things. The first thing is that focusing on test cases is often a pretty lousy way to think about testing.  That’s because test cases are often cast in terms of following an explicit procedure in order to observe a specific result.  At best, this … Read more