Introduction to Software Testing: A Practical Guide to Testing, Design, Automation, and Execution

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P. LeloudasIntroduction to Software Testinghttps://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4842-9514-4_5

5. Test Design Techniques

Panagiotis Leloudas¹  

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Ilioupoli, Greece

 

Test design techniques are methods used to create test cases that cover all possible scenarios and use cases of the software application being tested. Several test design techniques are available, each with its own strengths and weaknesses. In this chapter, we will discuss some of the popular test design techniques. We will see some common techniques, such as equivalence partitioning and boundary value analysis, and some more obscure but quite useful in complex situations, such as pairwise testing and ...