Pairwise Testing for Dummies

posted by  jhorra (5)  12 months ago (blogs.msdn.com)

So, imagine that you're a tester, and your job is to test a pogo stick.

Yes, a pogo stick.

So, you sit down, and brainstorm (like I did just now) a list of things that you might try to do to break the pogo stick, while still within bounds of  “normal” use. (Running over the pogo stick with a cement truck would certainly break it, but this scenario is not covered by the warranty)

Let's imagine your list of ideas looks something like this:

• Pogo in the rain
  
• Pogo off a platform (1 or 2 feet)
  
• Pogo in sand
  
• Pogo under varying w