Talk:Boundary value analysis

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Contents 1 Number of cases 2 Boundary value analysis or Boundary Value Analysis 3 Andreas Kaufman, external link 4 Grammatical update needed

[edit] Number of cases

This article suggests the common example of using three test cases at a boundary.

I have some problems with this, as there is disagreement as to how many cases are actually useful. Beizer in Black-Box Testing gives a very strong (to me) argument that only two cases are needed, including going through the eight failure cases for a one dimensional boundary, and comparing whether three cases is better than two.

I am loathe to just change this article so as to use only two test cases per boundary, as I understand that many people don't like this reasoning. I was considering adding a new section, titled something along the lines of 'Alternate Approach'. To me that smacks of turning the page itself into a discussion (where I am assuming that this page is useful to someone who wants to know what BVA is, and see an example we don't necessarily need to drag them into a discussion). However I am more loathe to leave the article as is (I think Beizer has a very good point here, and it just seems wrong to ignore it).

Any comments? I'll check back and see what you all think. Jtowler 18:40, 26 November 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Boundary value analysis or Boundary Value Analysis

I'm not sure the recent rename was correct. Is BVA a proper noun? If not WP:TITLE says it should be changed back. --Salix alba (talk) 12:25, 28 January 2007 (UTC)

Of course it's not a proper noun. I've requested a page move 86.152.203.212 13:33, 22 April 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Andreas Kaufman, external link

Andreas - you seem to keep adding a link to an external site that contains no information about BVA. I keep removing it. Obviously this is silly. Could you add some info here why the external site you link to is relevant to an article on BVA (rather than to software testing in general). Maybe I am missing something? Jtowler 11:30, 4 December 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Grammatical update needed

The page currently uses "you" a lot, as if it is talking to the reader. This needs to be recast to avoid this. --ΨΦorg (talk) 17:10, 9 June 2008 (UTC)