Category Partition Testing steps:
1. Decompose functional specifications into functional units.
2. Identify parameters and environment conditions.
3. Find categories of information.
4. Partition each category into choices.
5. Write test specifications for each unit.
6. Produce test frames.
7. Generate test Cases.[Testing and quality assurance for component-based software By Jerry Gao, H.-S. J. Tsao, Ye Wu]
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How can we develop a test suite to exercise the functions implemented by a single method? A method may implement one or several functions, while each may present varying levels of cohesion. Even cohesive functions can have complex input/output relationships. A systematic technique to identify functions and exercise each input/output relationship is needed. The Category-Partition pattern is appropriate for any method that implements one or more independent functions. For methods or functions that lack cohesion, the constituent responsibilities should be identified and modeled as separate functions. This approach is qualitative and may be worked by hand. It provides systematic implementation-independent coverage of method-scope responsibilities.
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Also See:
Catalog Based Testing
Combination Testing