Scenario Testing

What is Scenario Testing?

Scenario testing is a software testing technique that makes best use of scenarios. Scenarios help a complex system to test better where in the scenarios are to be credible which are easy to evaluate.

Methods in Scenario Testing:

• System scenarios

• Use-case and role-based scenarios

Strategies to Create Good Scenarios:

• Enumerate possible users their actions and objectives

• Evaluate users with hacker's mindset and list possible scenarios of system abuse.

• List the system events and how does the system handle such requests.

• List benefits and create end-to-end tasks to check them.

• Read about similar systems and their behaviour.

• Studying complaints about competitor's products and their predecessor.

Scenario Testing Risks:

• When the product is unstable, scenario testing becomes complicated.

• Scenario testing are not designed for test coverage.

• Scenario tests are often heavily documented and used time and again