Deep Walk Through Error Seeding and Error Guessing!
Deep Walk Through Error Guessing and Error Seeding!
Error Guessing
Error guessing is a testing technique that makes use of a tester’s skill, intuition and experience in testing similar applications to identify defects that may not be easy to capture by the more formal techniques. It is usually done after more formal techniques are completed.
Error Guessing is a test case design technique where the tester has to guess what faults might occur and to design the tests to represent them. Another common approach to black-box validation. Black-box testing is when everything else other than the source code may be used for testing. This is the most common approach to testing. Error guessing is when random inputs or conditions are used for testing. Random in this case includes a value either produced by a computerized random number generator, or an ad hoc value or test conditions provided by an engineer.
Error Seeding
It is a process of consciously adding errors to the source code, which can be used to evaluate the amount of residual errors after the system software test phase. After adding the errors to the source code, one can try to estimate the number of “real” errors in the code based on the number of seeded errors found.
The purposeful introduction of faults into a program to test effectiveness of a test suite or other quality assurance program.Error Seeding is the process of adding known faults intentionally in a program for the reason of monitoring the rate of detection & removal and also to estimate the number of faults remaining in the program.
