10 MINUTE GUIDE TO ORTHOGONAL ARRAY TESTING STRATEGY

Test condition coverage is always a point of concern and is critical to effectiveness of Testing. Regularly the testers come across testing functionality that has a huge number of feasible test paths (scenarios).
Covering all the scenarios at times is close to impossible, given the tight schedules for projects in recent times. Clients keep asking for more coverage with less effort. Automation of test cases is a viable option for systems that are stable. But more often the systems are not stable enough for automation.
Risk based testing provides us a hope of light wherein critical paths are first identified and then test scripts are created. But Risk based testing fails to provide truly Optimized Test Bed, which provides a good coverage. This is where Orthogonal Array Testing Strategy (OATS) scores over other testing Strategies. This book gives an insight on what, how and when this method can be applied. It is specifically helpful for Integration testing which requires wide range of scenario coverage.
Hope this book helps you in making your test bed / scenarios comprehensive and crisp.
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