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What makes the Test Script a good script or bad script. How can you tell just by looking at the script?

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Last Update: November 17, 2009 Asked by: DARYL

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February 23, 2007 14:00:36

nimmi

Member Since: February 2007 Contribution: 36

RE: What makes the Test Script a good script or bad sc...

A good test script has the probability of finding maximum number of bugs whereas a bad test script is the other way around.

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September 24, 2007 14:21:30

Pankaj

RE: What makes the Test Script a good script or bad sc...

A good test script has the ability to detect the maximum numbers of errors with minimum numbers of test cases.

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October 30, 2008 16:34:20

nkamuni_mca

Member Since: December 2007 Contribution: 93

RE: What makes the Test Script a good script or bad script. How can you tell just by looking at the script?

I agree that the best test script is the one which finds a lot of bugs apart from that....

The script is said to good... when it as the following...

It must be simple
It must be reusable
It is understanable - Doucumation
It must be Small.

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Narin

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April 15, 2009 12:00:47

vk1978

Member Since: February 2009 Contribution: 174

RE: What makes the Test Script a good script or bad script. How can you tell just by looking at the script?

To make a script good one we need to maintain:

1) Description of the Script (Like Script Name author Date of Creation etc)

2) Followed coding standards are not(like declaring variables Intendation etc)

3) Included Comments where ever needed

4) Simple to understand

5) Creating Reusable functions where ever needed in the script

etc

Plz correct me if I am wrong

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November 17, 2009 03:54:21

kurtz182

Member Since: November 2009 Contribution: 139

RE: What makes the Test Script a good script or bad script. How can you tell just by looking at the script?

Just to be clear a test script can be authored for manual or automated testing.

If the test script is to be used for manual testing the it should:
1) identify prerequisites
2) describe test steps clearly and concisely
3) provide expectations
4) identify criteria for failure

If the test script is to be used as a test harness in a test repository with test engine then it should:
1) be simple
2) be concise
3) be clear
4) be reuseable

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