Software Testing Strategies

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Testing and Designing Tests

In the Preface section, we mentioned three levels of testing – checking the obvious, testing intensely (which might never end), and, finally, looking at testing as a risk management activity. We’ll start with the obvious, demonstrate the forever, and then talk about the ways to look at testing as risk management – that is, how can we spend a little time now to save time and money and avoid frustrated users and damaged reputations later? To do that, we must select a few of the most powerful test ideas, with a bias toward the most important parts of the software, and then determine something of meaning from them. Risk management also includes a variety of techniques with some overlap, so that if one approach fails ...