Software Test Management

Friday, January 4, 2008

Treating Test Cases as a Product

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Software Testing has become a self-governing and a very important profession over a period. As the software development process is becoming a complex activity day by day, the demand to continuously evolve the software testing practices and keeping them aligned to the needs of software engineering is becoming important as well.

One of the most challenging aspects of software testing is designing good test cases. Since test cases lay a foundation for effective test management, and further for sustainance engineering, it should be treated as a product itself and test professionals should take pride in the quality of the test cases because it is their creation.

The objective of this paper is to introduce and discuss why test cases should be treated as a product. The paper further introduces the practices that have evolved to design good test cases that consistently helped testers to design good test cases, deliver them as a product and meet the demands of test projects that testers undertake.

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