Testcases are Important

One of the most frequent and major activity of a Software Tester is to write Test Cases. First of all, kindly keep in mind that all this discussion is about ‘Writing Test Cases’ not about designing/defining/identifying testcases. There are some important and critical factors related to this major activity.Let us have a bird’s eye view of those factors first.

a. Test Cases are prone to regular revision and update:

We live in a continuously changing world, software are also not immune to changes. Same holds good for requirements and this directly impacts the test cases. Whenever, requirements are altered, testcases need to be updated. Yet, it is not only the change in requirement that may cause revision and update to testcases.

During the execution of testcases, many ideas arise in the mind, many sub-conditions of a single TC cause update and even addition of testcases. Moreover, during regression testing several fixes and/or ripples demand revised or new testcases.

b. Test Cases are prone to distribution among the testers who will execute these:

Of course there is hardly the case that a single tester executes all the testcases. Normally there are several testers who test different modules of a single application. So the testcases are divided among them according to their owned areas of application under test. Some testcases related to integration of application, may be executed by multiple testers while some may be executed only by a single tester.

c. Test Cases are prone to clustering and batching:

It is normal and common that testcases belonging to a single test scenario usually demand their execution in some specific sequence or in the form of group. There may be some testcases pre-requisite of other testcases. Similarly, according to the business logic of AUT, a single TC may contribute in several test conditions and a single test condition may consist of multiple testcases.

d. Test Cases have tendency of inter-dependence:

This is also an interesting and important behavior of testcases that those may be interdependent on each other. In medium to large applications with complex business logic, this tendency is more visible.

The clearest area of any application where this behavior can definitely be observed is the interoperability between different modules of same or even different applications. Simply speaking, wherever the different modules or applications are interdependent, the same behavior is reflected in the testcases.

e. Test Cases are prone to distribution among developers (especially in TC driven development environment):

An important fact about testcases is that these are not only to be utilized by the testers. In normal case, when a bug is under fix by the developers, they are indirectly using the TC to fix the issue. Similarly, where the TCD development is followed, testcases are directly used by the developers to build their logic and cover all scenarios, addressed by testcases, in their code.

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