Video Tutorials for Beginers by Cem Kaner & James Bach Part3

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Domain testing is the most frequently described test technique. Some authors write only about domain testing when they write about test design. The basic notion is that you take the huge space of possible tests of an individual variable and subdivide it into subsets that are (in some way) equivalent. Then you test a representative from each subset.

More advanced problems involve combination tests--having done the analysis for several variables, we now test the variables together, using the representative values as if they were the only values of interest. Thus a variable that has a million possible values is reduced to 4 by the traditional domain testing approach (2 valid, 2 invalid). The number of "possible" tests of 3 variables combined would be 4 x 4 x 4 instead of some gargantuan number.

Unfortunately, the classical domain testing approach is a bit too simplistic. Glen Myers showed a more complex variation in his book, The Art of Software Testing (1979), as did Kaner, Falk & Nguyen in Testing Computer Software (1988, 1993). These authors described what was common in practice, rather than in the more theoretical discussions. Those discussions lead to an overly mechanical view of the thinking and practice of domain testing. These two lectures describes a risk-based approach to domain testing, and puts it in the context of three other dominant explanatory structures for the practice of domain testing.

Video lecture 1:

http://hotfile.com/dl/11655950/f9fbbe6/Domain1aIntro.wmv.html

http://hotfile.com/dl/11655963/49a8fe0/Domain1bClassicalAnalysis.wmv.html

http://hotfile.com/dl/11655979/a757fa6/Domain1cExamples.wmv.html

http://hotfile.com/dl/11656002/2267cc3/Domain1dRiskBasedEquivalence.wmv.html

http://hotfile.com/dl/11656010/850ac04/Domain1eSummary.wmv.html

http://hotfile.com/dl/11656017/063df37/DomainTestExamplesWorked.wmv.html

Video lecture 2:

http://hotfile.com/dl/11656026/e25af8d/Domain2aNonOrderedSets.wmv.html

http://hotfile.com/dl/11656041/316031f/Domain2bDomainTheory.wmv.html

http://hotfile.com/dl/11656047/cb22792/Domain2cInteraction.wmv.html

http://hotfile.com/dl/11656059/a00b3c5/DomainHockeyExample.wmv.html