From the course: Software Testing: Exploratory Testing
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Exploring test requirements
From the course: Software Testing: Exploratory Testing
Exploring test requirements
- [Instructor] Writing automated regression tests is hard. Well, at least it's hard to do well. A good automated regression test is one that will be run many, many times. And this means that it needs to be robust. It can't break every time there's some little change in the application because otherwise we'll end up spending more time fixing this test than it would have taken to just run through it manually. But it also has to check things that might break. Otherwise, what's the point of running it. An automated regression test that never fails isn't really serving its purpose. It isn't giving you feedback on things that might've gone wrong in the system. So how do you come up with tests like this? How do you write good automated regression tests? Knowing that this is a course on exploratory testing. You might've guessed the answer's going to be test exploration and you'd be correct, but how do we use exploratory testing…
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