[Meego-qa] can we add negative testing as a test type?

[jari.tahvanainen at nokia.com]

Hello Fan,

Today the terminology for the test types is based on Quality attributes (what aspect of test sw quality is measured) and risks tackled (what kind of failure one tries to avoid) by certain test. Now I'm just wondering that if one adds this "Negative testing" to the list then shall we also have other things to be included. On my papers negative tests are the ones that one needs to have under all the test types (e.g. stress situations in non-functional area) - not just under functional area.

The real problem (like you said) is the filtering and surely the tool where you want to do that has impact to solution.
So where do you want to do this filtering ... Testlink, testplans.meego.com or somewhere else?

Br, Jari

From: meego-qa-bounces at lists.meego.com [mailto:meego-qa-bounces at lists.meego.com] On Behalf Of ext Zhao, Fan
Sent: 30 March 2011 11:52
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Subject: [Meego-qa] can we add negative testing as a test type?

Hi all,
I have a question about test types defined in test case template (http://wiki.meego.com/Quality/Test_areas_and_types). Is it possible to add "Negative testing" as a test type under Functional quality characteristics? I am proposing because negative testing is an important test type to uncover problems on mobile devices and I am interested in filtering out all the negative test cases. Flagging test cases as negative test type will make the filter possible.

Thanks,
Fan
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