Common Software Tests

General¶

• Verify all fields that should be required are in fact required by the code.
  

Text Fields¶

• Test maximum allowed input (i.e., LONG text)
• Test text containing special characters
  • apostrophe (a.k.a. single quote)
  • double-quote
  • ampersand
    

Numeric Fields¶

• Test letters
• Test zero
• Test negative numbers
• Test LARGE numbers (e.g,. larger than 2³²)
  

Date Fields¶

• Test invalid date: e.g., February 30th
  

Date Ranges¶

• Test an end date in an earlier month of a later year than the start date. For example, test the date range 02/01/2009 to 01/01/2010. This should be valid, but if the dates are compared as strings, it will be considered invalid.