What is Error Guessing and Error Seeding ?

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Permalink Reply by Gowtham on December 8, 2008 at 6:48pm

Hi Vijay,

Error Guessing is a test case design technique where the tester has to guess what faults might occur and to design the tests to represent them.

Error Seeding is the process of adding known faults intentionally in a program for the reason of monitoring the rate of detection & removal and also to estimate the number of faults remaining in the program.

Regards
Gowtham

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Permalink Reply by Kiran Kumar on December 9, 2008 at 11:22am

Error Guessing:
Another common approach to black-box validation. Black-box testing is when everything else other than the source code may be used for testing. This is the most common approach to testing. Error guessing is when random inputs or conditions are used for testing. Random in this case includes a value either produced by a computerized random number generator, or an ad hoc value or test conditions provided by engineer.

Error seeding:
The purposeful introduction of faults into a program to test effectiveness of a test suite or other quality assurance program.

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