From the course: Software Testing Foundations: Test Techniques

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Conditions, coverage, and cases

Conditions, coverage, and cases

- [Narrator] Any quality team is faced with a delicate balance between doing enough to be thorough but not doing so much to be exhaustive. It's a hard thing to consider when building out test plans like test techniques and creating your test cases. What does your testing cover? In what conditions will this product operate? What needs to be done to ensure it goes out the door with as few bugs as possible? Where do you draw a line in the sand? The reality is that these are difficult questions and the answers aren't always clear. Making decisions about which techniques, processes and cases should be executed is always tough because there are no identical standards. You could take every technique discussed in this course and execute each with perfection and still deliver a poor product. In contrast, you could pick a few select techniques and get the same result. The techniques aren't full-proof methodologies for delivering…

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