Starting from a risk-based testing strategy an adequate test design is the key for effective and efficient testing. There are many different test design methods around for a long time (perhaps too many?) and a lot of books explain them in detail, but when we look into practice we can see that often there is quite limited usage of these test design methods at all. What are the reasons behind that? How can we overcome this and improve our testing approaches?
After explaining some of the reasons this session presents a test design poster called ”Test Design Methods on One Page”. It shows the big picture of testdesign methods by delivering a systematic, structured and categorized overview about the different test design methods which you should take into account when designing your test cases. Pick up this poster and give it to every developer and tester in your team or put it on the wall in your tester office: it will help you and your team to be aware of the available test design methods and to select and really use them as required. This will result in a better and smarter testing overall which will pay off very soon.

5 Key Points

• Good test case design is the key for effective and efficient testing.
• There exist many different methods for test case design.
• When looking into practice often these test design methods are used only sporadically and in a non-systematical way.
• A test design poster containing a systematic, structured and categorized overview about test design methods will help you to really get them used in practice in your projects.
• Use this test design poster as a guideline and checklist in your projects for test case design.