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Friday, October 3, 2008

What is keyword driven testing?

Answer1: Keyword-driven testing or Table-driven testing is a Softwaretesting methodology as part of the Test automation
discipline that separates the programming work from the
actual Test script so that the test scripts can be developed
without knowledge of programming. As a result the test
scripts can be maintained with only minor updates, even when
the application or testing requires significant changes

Answer2: Software test scripts are conventionally composed ad hoc by a coder. Some software development tools help automate testing by recording tests that are run, allowing "playback" of the test routines. However, an entire test routine is rarely, if ever, applicable to more than one release of one application. Data-driven testing adds some modularity by keeping test input and output values separate from the test procedure, but the procedure itself is still in a monolithic script. Keyword-driven testing breaks the test procedure into logical components that can then be used repeatedly in the assembly of new test scripts

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