Re: Test Scripts/ Test Specifications
Has anybody in this list serve done similar projects? And do you have any suggestions, tips, or warnings? What things worked well. What things would you do differently. What problems could be avoided and what would you do to avoid them?
I approached the couple of test scripts that I did in much the same way that I approach indexing. Just as, when indexing, I try to anticipate what term people might expect a concept to be under, when doing test scripts, I try to anticipate all the things that an end-user might try.
Then I tried to arrange them in an order that would allow efficient testing. To take an obvious example, if I knew or suspected that an action might crash the software or render it unusable, I tried to place it at the end of the script, where it would cause the least inconvenience. When that wasn't possible, I put a note in the script that the action might cause problems.
Other than that, the order of actions quickly becomes obvious. For example, I was doing a script for a database module. Obviously, testing for errors isn't possible until items are processed; similarly, processing isn't possible until items are entered.
In the end, test scripts aren't that different from developing a manual outline. In fact, on at least one project, I worked from test scripts to produce most of the outline for documentation.
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