Use Path Analysis in Test Design for Better, Faster Testing

No question about it … software is highly complex maze, and it could take many lifetimes to manually test all the paths in a typical business app. Automation doesn’t help much because it’s not smart enough (yet) to design tests. Rob Sabourin shares his experiences testing complex application—some with more possible paths than particles of matter in the visible universe. Although programmers have applied path analysis to structural unit tests for years, path analysis has been mostly neglected in areas of end-to-end testing, workflow, process flow, usage scenarios, data flow, and system level control flow. See how you can employ path analysis techniques to dramatically narrow down the myriad paths to a small collection which will quickly expose important cross feature interference, shared object, and resource contention bugs. Through case studies, you’ll learn how to use the free “paths” tool to untangle the complexity of path analysis for designing tests.