We all know that Chinese medicine is about seeing, smelling, asking and cutting 4 methods. Hope is the purposeful observation of the patient's look, color, shape, state, tongue, etc. to detect visceral lesions; smell, refer to sounds and smells; ask, refer to the symptoms; cut, refer to the pulse. Seeing, hearing, and asking, collectively referred to as four consultations, is a means of Chinese medicine to detect patients' conditions.
In software testing, there are also four methods of "seeing, hearing, and asking". They are called Hope of Test, News of Test, Question of Test and Cut of Test. Let’s take a look at them in detail below?
1. "Hope" of testing
"Hope" is the most commonly used method in software testing. Testers will record the actual results of running test cases, and then compare them with the expected results, so as to draw a conclusion whether the software meets the requirements. The tester's observation of the actual test results is called "wang".
2. "Smell" of the test
Smell is to listen to sounds and smell. Sometimes it is possible to judge the malfunction of the software system by hearing abnormal sounds or smelling abnormal smells (such as burning smell) in the equipment.
For example, when a tester was performing a performance test on a software system, he heard some abnormal sound from the hard disk. After investigation, it was found that the hard disk was frequently operated. The frequent operation of this hard disk was caused by the error of modifying a read defect-the original defect was read from the cache and the accuracy was not high, so it was changed to read from the hard disk. This is the "smell" of the test
3. "Question" of the test
In addition to testing methods such as equivalence class division, boundary value analysis, decision tree and branch coverage, code coverage, etc., which are usually used in white box testing and black box testing, there is another method called exploratory testing for software testing. Exploratory testing means that the testers continuously optimize the testing strategy based on the information obtained while performing the test, select the most suitable testing technology, and perform the test. This testing method pays more attention to thinking and learning. Only by constantly discovering new problems can we design unique test cases.
4. The "cut" of the test
Traditional Chinese medicine can diagnose the condition by signalling the pulse, and the tester can also touch the chassis or the outside of the device to check the heating and other conditions of the device to determine whether there is a defect.
As a tester, what method did you use? In fact, several methods of testing are involved.
Just like:
look at the four methods of asking, asking, and using it in testing.
One method is hard to say, but comprehensive application is best.
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