Test Techniques - Foundation Level

Learn how to approach test case design as a focused, structured activity, helping you reduce a large test space into a focused set of cases that gives useful information within the time available. The course builds your ability to design and evaluate tests with greater confidence to ensure your activity provides clearer information about the quality and performance of the system under test. 

Work with commonly used black-box techniques, including equivalence partitioning, boundary value analysis, decision table testing and state transition testing, alongside an introduction to white-box approaches such as statement, decision and path testing. This gives you a broader technical toolkit, helping you understand where different techniques fit and how they can support more effective test design. 

Understand how formal techniques link test selection with coverage, giving you a clearer basis for judging whether important behaviours have been exercised. Through group activities and discussion, you’ll see how methods such as the classification tree method can help reduce duplication and check whether important behaviours or decision rules have been addressed. 

You’ll develop a better understanding of how to select test techniques based on the level of risk and testing objective. This helps you make more informed decisions in software delivery environments, balancing efficiency and thoroughness so you can direct testing effort towards the areas where evidence matters most.