Purpose of Test Scenario
- Verify complete functionality: Test scenarios help to verify the complete functionality of the software application under test.
- The business process according to functional requirements: Test scenarios help to ensure that the business flows and processes are as per the functional requirements of the application.
- Organize workforce: Test scenarios help to determine testing work effort, and create a proposal for the client, thus helping to organize the workforce.
- Determine end-to-end critical applications: Test scenarios help to determine end-to-end critical software applications.
Test Case vs Test Scenario
The article focuses on discussing the difference between test cases and test scenarios. Before proceeding with the difference let’s first discuss each term in detail.
Test cases are the set of actions to execute and test a particular feature of the application on the other hand test scenarios are any functionality that can be tested. Test cases are derived from test scenarios whereas test scenarios are derived from SRS, BRS, etc. Test cases help in the exhaustive testing of the application and test scenarios help in the agile way of testing the application. Test cases are focused on how to test and what to test on the other hand test scenarios are focused on what to test. Test cases require more time and resources as compared to test scenarios. Test cases are low-level actions and test scenarios are high-level actions.