4 Test Techniques

330 minutes

Keywords

black-box test technique, boundary value analysis, checklist-based testing, coverage, decision coverage, decision table testing, error guessing, equivalence partitioning, experience-based test technique, exploratory testing, state transition testing, statement coverage, test technique, use case testing, whitebox test technique

Learning Objectives for Test Techniques

4.1 Categories of Test Techniques

• FL-4.1.1 (K2) Explain the characteristics, commonalities, and differences between black-box test techniques, white-box test techniques, and experience-based test techniques

4.2 Black-box Test Techniques

• FL-4.2.1 (K3) Apply equivalence partitioning to derive test cases from given requirements

• FL-4.2.2 (K3) Apply boundary value analysis to derive test cases from given requirements

• FL-4.2.3 (K3) Apply decision table testing to derive test cases from given requirements

• FL-4.2.4 (K3) Apply state transition testing to derive test cases from given requirements

• FL-4.2.5 (K2) Explain how to derive test cases from a use case

4.3 White-box Test Techniques

• FL-4.3.1 (K2) Explain statement coverage

• FL-4.3.2 (K2) Explain decision coverage

• FL-4.3.3 (K2) Explain the value of statement and decision coverage

4.4 Experience-based Test Techniques

• FL-4.4.1 (K2) Explain error guessing

• FL-4.4.2 (K2) Explain exploratory testing

• FL-4.4.3 (K2) Explain checklist-based testing