Software Testing. Testing notepad editor?
Question:
What kind of test would you carry out? Be as creative as possible.
Answer:
Since you are not provinding much info on what to test, I will provide a sample scenario:
Suppose the Copy option that is available in edit|copy menu will be enhanced so that users can do multiple copies of text one after another like copying some paragraph from word then some other paragraph from wordpad and so on so that when you do a paste in notepad all of the copied paragraphs are pasted in the same sequence you did the copy.
I would perform a BASELINING of the application this is documenting how the application is working before a change takes place (code modification, data modification, etc) it will later be used when running REGRESSION test cases.
After the change I would perform an INTEGRATION test to check if the application is working as its supposed to(with the multiple copy functionality).
After all integration test cases have passed (If they did not pass, the problem should be corrected after the next test phase) I would run the REGRESSION test cases, in this phase I am checking that I am getting the same results as when i did the BASELINING, this is to ensure that no other portions of the application got affected by the change (other menus like file, help, etc should work the same as before)
I can even do a performance test to check how far can the "copy" go, if my requirements say the application can copy up to 9999999999999999 words then I will test that, if it can only copy 99999999 words then the performance test is failing.
Hope it helps
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