In doing QA-esque things for friends and coworkers, I have noticed that some people do not have a good sense of how to ‘QA’ something. I compiled a short list of questions below that I ask myself.

Testing Inputs

Does the system handle¹…

Different Quantities

• a little input?
• a lot?
• A LOT?
• nothing?
• a ’normal’ amount?
• one value that is really short?
• one value that is really loooonnnnnnggggg?

Different Qualities

• something of a weird type?
• input that is already in the system?
• uppercase?
• lowercase?
• input with special characters (e.g. Unicode) in it?

Testing Workflows

• go forward
• go backwards from each step
• go back-and-forth between steps