Effective Testing

Create a test design
- Overall strategic test plan
  - Project description
  - Goals/schedules/resources/coverage/testcases/bug criteria/contingencies
- Individual component test plans
  - Strategy/approach
  - Areas to be tested, not tested
  - Specifications
  - Types of testing
    - Syntax - invalid condition testing on each parameter and delimiter
    - Automation
    - Acceptance
    - Functional
      - Simple functionality - valid/invalid data
      - Complex functionality - valid/invalid data
      - Equivalence classes - technique for testcase reduction
      - Boundaries - test all sides of equivalence classes
    - Stress
    - Regression
    - Ad hoc
  - Contingencies
Create testcases
- Characterisistics of a good testcase
  - Test has a reasonable probability of catching an error
  - Test is not redundant
  - Test is more effective than others
Bug tracking

Conformance Metric Needs

Independent organization to define common test conditions for conformance testing
- Testing methodology
- Degree of conformance
- Equivalence classes/boundary checkpoints
Test suites
Automation tools

Conformance
by Christine Hoffman

Introduction