How to write test cases for this function

Hi, Guys,
I met a interview questions today, the question is to test this bool function
bool match (string s, string p);
string p is a pattern string, that means include character such as '?' or '*'
e.g. if s = 'panic' and p='pani?', it will return true,
if s ='panic' and p ='p*', it will return true,
if s = 'panic' and p= '??' it will return false.

I don't know how to write down test cases and how to classify the test cases such as valid or invalid, boundary test , could anyone help me out?

Thanks in advance.

irisli
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Nov 30th, 2007
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deep_pinu
Profile Answers by deep_pinu

Jan 31st, 2008

Hi irisli

I cudnt understand your question, but still i wud suggest is
you should write test case having string- s as the super set of p-pattern. means p must have each char assigend to s.

can u pl. test , what kind of testing it is....white/black. so that we can find a solution to it.

vini_26
Profile Answers by vini_26

Feb 27th, 2008

Hi, these are the following test cases which you can write for the asked function..
Let me tell
you first what I understood from the question because according to that I have written the cases.
According to what I
saw, string s and string p are compared and resulted true only if both characters match. (even one character from s can match p).
The "?" and "*" is just like replacement for any one character.
s=panic , p = pani? ------ Valid
s=panic , p = pani* ------ Valid
s=panic , p = p? ------ Valid
s=panic , p = p* ------ Valid
s=panic , p = p*nic ------ Valid
s=panic , p = p*ni? ------ InValid
s=panic , p = ?pnic ------ InValid
s=panic , p = ?? ------ InValid
s=panic , p = *? ------ InValid
s=panic , p = ** ------ InValid
s=panic , p = pan?? ------ InValid
These are few test cases which
I think can be written..
Correct me if am wrong..

saravanan123
Profile Answers by saravanan123

Aug 13th, 2009

hi friend

don`t worry you ask the help from the people who has known sql query very well because they know very well about the query how to writefor this

In sql normally they use view for these set to test