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Experience-based techniques
From the course: ISTQB Foundation Cert Prep
Experience-based techniques
- [Teacher] When applying experience-based test techniques, the test cases are derived from the tester's skill and intuition and their experience with similar applications or technologies. The techniques can be helpful in identifying tests that were not easily identified by other more systematic testing. Depending on the tester's approach and experience, these techniques may achieve widely varying degrees of coverage and effectiveness. Coverage can be difficult to assess and may not be measurable with these techniques. Some of the commonly used experience-based techniques may include error guessing. Error guessing is a technique used to anticipate the occurrence of errors, defects, and failures, based on the tester's knowledge, including how the application has worked in the past, what kind of errors tend to be made in the application, and failures that have occurred in other applications. A methodical approach to the…
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