CHARTER

To Test the Testability of Narrator Application

#AREAS

OS | Windows XP SP3

Build | Not Available

Product | Narrator

Strategy | Complex | Testability Testing

START

2nd Oct 2009 12.40 PM

TESTER

Parimala Shankaraiah

TASK BREAKDOWN

None

#DURATION

Normal - 45 minutes

#TEST DESIGN AND EXECUTION

70

#BUG INVESTIGATION AND REPORTING

30
#SESSION SETUP

#CHARTER VS. OPPORTUNITY

100/0

DATA FILES

None

TEST NOTES

1. Testability is the test support included in the Software Product Code. Slightly
hard to figure out what to test.
2. Though narrator appears to be simple in functionality, it poses a challenge in
terms of providing a small dialog with little information about Events, typed
characters etc
3. Test Interface is pretty simple and user friendly

OPPORTUNITY

Observed a lot of functional issues – future charter

BUGS

#BUG 1

Testability: No Access to Source code of narrator, design documents and the change
records(If I was in the testing team of Narrator application)

Repro:

1. Look for Source Code, design documents and the change records if any.
Result: Nothing is available for the tester

Expected: As part of testability, there should be access to source code, design

documents and the change records if any. This will help testers to read the code
and interpret the code.

#BUG 2

Testability: Logging is not supported by Narrator

Repro:

1. Look for any logs generated while Narrator is in use

Result: No logs are available

Expected Results: Having log information is very critical for testing the product
because it is a good place to store error information as logs help uncover a lot of
failure scenarios

#BUG 3

Testability: Event Viewer does not capture any log information about Narrator
application

Repro:

1. Start > Run > Eventvwr > Look for events related to Narrator

Result: Event Viewer does not capture any log information about Narrator
application

Expected Result: Event logs are useful as a monitoring mechanism to observe

failures which do not show up directly and hence should be supported.

#BUG 4

Testability: Uninstallation option is not provided

Repro:

1. There is no option to uninstall Narrator

Result: There is no option to uninstall Narrator

Expected Result: Uninstallation provides vital information and hence this option
should be provided to the tester

ISSUES

None