Keyword Testing

Till date, I have encountered many variations of “Software Testing” types. The recent one that I came across was “Monkey Testing”. But few days back, I encountered (or better to say I invented) one more type of testing – “Keyword Testing”.

Few weeks back, I was analyzing the scope of one of the testing effort. On that activity, my team had measured one testing effort which I was not able categorize under any type of testing criteria. Actually, my team has a list of features that no one in the team was aware of. I.e. the features list was totally grey area for us. But we need to analyze the testing effort for that also. Besides this, we need to identify the areas that need to be tested against those particular “strange” features. Ironically, we had identified some test cases based on the keywords that we had seen similar to the features that we have tested before.

In short, we identified some test cases that we are going to execute for those “strange” features, based on some keywords that we are aware of, in the list. It was quite strange but was the need of the hour. That’s why; I named that testing as “Keyword Testing”.

And the best part is that we are currently executing those test cases. Keeping our fingers crossed, we are expecting a good testing against those features and hopefully, the customer would also be satisfied with the quality of the release.

-- Sanat Sharma