Software Testing plays a vital role in
ensuring the quality of a Software product. Test cases are the key tools for
testing. Test cases review has to be thorough in order to ensure that effective
and adequate testing is done
What is
the importance of test cases review?
- Test cases are written with the intent to
detect the defects
- Understanding of the requirement is correct
- Impact areas are identified and brought under
test
- Test data is correct and represent every
possible class of the domain
- Positive and negative scenarios are covered
- Expected behavior is documented correctly
- Test coverage is adequate
What is
the methodology of test cases review?
Typically,
reviews should be done during each phase in the Testing Life cycle
The phases
involved in Software testing lifecycle are
Requirements
understanding --During the
Requirements Understanding phase, review of requirements is an activity that
should be undertaken with utmost care and such review should be done
systematically to ensure the clarity, correctness and testability of the
requirements.
Test
preparation--During the Test preparation phase, after the test scenarios are
identified and test conditions and cases are built for each scenario, it is
advisable to do a thorough and detailed review. Checklist for Test cases review
during the Test Preparation Phase
Test
Execution--During the test execution phase, doing a review after the cases
are executed is very important .
Test
Reporting--During the Test Reporting phase, it would help to ensure that
all the required documents are prepared, metrics are collated and all the
project specific formalities are completed.
What are
the most common test case review defects?
- Incomplete Test Cases
- Missing negative test cases
- No Test Data
- Inappropriate/Incorrect Test data
- Incorrect Expected behavior
- Grammatical errors
- Typos
- Inconsistent tense/voice
- Incomplete results/number of test runs
- Defect details not updated
- Changes to requirements not updated in Test
case
