What Are Advantages Of Session - Based Testing?

Any novice tester knows that before proceeding directly to mobile application testing, desktop testing or web site testing one must elaborate test-cases.

But recently some testers decided to that using of test-cases is inconvenient and obsolete. It takes much time to elaborate and to maintain test-cases. This time could be used more efficiently, directly on testing efforts, for instance.

So, some other ways of documenting and streamlining testing activities have been developed. One of new effective approaches to managing tests is session-based testing. It is often utilized in course of mobile testing, as some testers believe that it is more suitable for work with rapidly evolving mobile technology than test-cases.

It is Better to Apply Session-Based Testing Than Test-Cases Because:

- it gives clear testing goals, but at the same time leaves some freedom for testers;

- testing sessions help to focus on achieving testing goals and not to deviate too far from the scenario;

- if test plan appears to be imperfect and a session turns to be inefficient one can spent little time on it; in case of working with test-cases a lot more time would have been lost in the similar situation;

- recorded result allows testers to evaluate and review their work, to see what they tested well and what should be changed or improved;

- discussions and sharing information with the stakeholders helps to insure proper understanding of the project, its risks and problems by all its members; it also improves communication between the project parties;

- working with test-cases testers give the development team only error-reports and criticize them; this may discourage the developers; during discussions testers share their opinions about various aspects of the software under test, including the things they like about the program; this information may be used for promotion of the product.

So, it seems that session-based testing is much better than test-cases are. Some software testing experts are convinced that it is so, especially in case of mobile application testing, as mobile projects are almost always very limited in time and rapidly changing.

Nevertheless, test-cases are still widely utilized in course of testing works. Along with test-cases and session-based testing other methods and approaches to testing process documenting are used, the new more efficient ones are developed.

Information technologies are constantly developing and what has been good today may become unsuitable and out-of-date tomorrow. That is why a professional software testing company is convinced that a good tester should always keep up with the latest achievements and best practices, and try to elaborate his or her own. Only this approach can insure high-quality web-site testing, desktop testing and mobile testing.

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