All QA professionals know the difference between a test script and a test case and the overlap between them, but few have the patience to analyze each. It can speed up testing and make tests more ...

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Scenarios are never the same, and neither should be your Pester scripts to test those scenarios. There are a couple of ways to account for these different scenarios. You could create a separate test ...

Imagine typing out a series of steps in plain English that would reflect a list of actions a human QA tester would undertake to test an app, then turning that list into an automated testing script.

When you write a PowerShell script how do you truly know it worked? Do you define it to be successful when it doesn't throw an error? If so, what about those times when you might have accidentally ...

The instructions in a test program. It defines the actions and pass/fail criteria. For example, if the action is "to enter a valid account number," the expected result is that the data are accepted.

This post follows up on Part 1 by examining the many ways that you can test the value of variables – e.g., whether they equal particular strings like “yes” or “no”, if they have a numeric value, if ...