Important Guidelines For Writing Test Cases

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Important Guidelines For Writing Test Cases
A test case is a group or a set of actions that
are executed by a tester, to check that a
particular functionality or a feature of the
software being tested is as expected or not.
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What is the need for writing test cases?

• The essential aim of writing test cases is to
  validate the testing scope of the application.
• Whether it be manual testing or automation
  testing, test cases are important.

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Standard practices for writing effective test
cases

• 1. Write test cases keeping the end user in mind
• A tester must write test cases remembering the
  end user point of view.

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Standard practices for writing effective test
cases

• 2. Make no assumption
• Try not to assume the functionality and features
  of your product application while writing test
  cases.
• 3. Make use of testing techniques
• Its impractical to check each conceivable
  condition in your software.

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Standard practices for writing effective test
cases

• 4. Review From Peers
• Subsequent to writing test cases, get them
  checked by your partners or peers.
• 5. Try to ensure 100 coverage
• Use Traceability Matrix to guarantee no
  functionality/conditions are left untested.

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Standard Practices For Writing Effective Test
Cases

• 6. Self Cleaning
• The test case you prepare must give back the test
  environment to the pre-test state and ought not
  render the test environment unusable.
• 7. Ensure that test case repetition does not
  happen
• Try not to repeat the test cases.

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