Value of Test Cases in Software Testing

Abstract

In the place of traditional principle of project management a strategic management philosophy is emerging fast in which writing better test cases also receive the widespread attention of all those interested in software project management and software testing. In the current scenario managing software is an important task in an IT industry. Not only managing IT project, but also it is need to develop quality software product for the customer. It includes the number of tasks and phases of the software project development. Testing is one of the phases, which is most important in project management. In software testing writing test cases is very important. So it is necessary to study how to write better test cases. This paper describes how to avoid loses that is inevitable with poor test cases. It will give practical advice on how to improve productivity, usability, scheduling reliability and asset management. Once you understand what's and why's of the test cases, you can use a checklist of the standard to identify areas of the risk and improve your current and future test cases. Case study tries to gives an insight about how to use test cases to improve testability and productivity, how to solve common challenges to test case quality and how to protect test case assets, which can be in practice in the software industry.