Test Methods and Strategies Glossary

Test Strategy A test strategy describes how the test effort will reach the quality goals set out by the development team. Sometimes called the test approach, test strategy includes, among other things, the testing objective, methods and techniques of testing and the testing environment.

Key Principles of Test Design

Regardless of the method you choose, simply spending some time thinking about good test design before writing the first test case will have a very high payback down the line, both in the quality and the efficiency of the tests. Test design is the single biggest contributor to success in software testing and its also …