I am going to write a serial of “How to Test” posts, where I shall essay to bargain amongst how to essay unopen to objects/equipments of day-to-day usage, which don’t utilization whatsoever software application! I volition write these posts over adjacent few weeks. So rest tuned for unopen to genuinely interesting “How to Test” posts.I selected a musquito repellent every bit my start ship of the series, because I could retrieve existence asked this inquiry (as a testing exercise) few months dorsum yesteryear a friend.
Note: While writing unopen to essay ideas on how to essay the repellent, I am assuming that the motorcar uses musquito repellent liquidator to operate. And I possess got been supplied amongst a pack containing a repellent motorcar too few liquidator refills of diverse brands!
Test ideas:
1. Test if the liquidator refill fits good amongst the repellent machine. [Installability Testing!]
2. Test the construction of the machine. Verify it amongst the specified construction inward the user manual.
3. Plug inward the repellent motorcar amongst a powerfulness concluding too run into if the indicator LED glows. Also essay if the motorcar genuinely is getting powerfulness render too the liquidator fume is dispersing inward the surrounding repelling the mosquitoes. [Usability Testing!]
4. Test how the motorcar performs nether unlike voltage conditions. Test it nether unlike voltage supplies (like 110 volts, 220 volts, 440 volts too fifty-fifty xi kilo volts, provided you lot create produce to larn such a powerfulness render inward your essay lab!) [Performance Testing!]
5. Test the powerfulness consumption (wattage) of the machine.
6. Switch ON the motorcar for a really long fourth dimension (may hold out 48-72 hours continuously) too run into what happens. [Stress Testing!]
7. Attach an empty liquidator to the motorcar too run into what happens when the motorcar is switched ON inward such condition.
8. Test unlike brands of liquidator refills amongst the motorcar too run into if it continues to operate without whatsoever problem. [Compatibility Testing!]
9. Test the repellent amongst other forms of musquito repellents (like coils, mats etc) of unlike brands too run into what happens. [Compatibility Testing!]
10. Test the motorcar amongst unlike forms of plug sockets available inward the market. [Compatibility Testing!]
11. Test the minimum duration inward which the repellent seems to operate too repel mosquitoes. [Capability Testing!]
12. Test the minimum expanse (in cubic feet) inward which the repellent is effective on mosquitoes. [Capability Testing!]
13. Test the motorcar inward an opened upwardly expanse (not within a room, may hold out on roof top, opened upwardly field, garden etc.) too run into if the effectiveness changes. [Capability Testing!]
14. Test if the repellent is besides effective on whatsoever other insects similar moths, bugs, cockroaches, flies etc. [Capability Testing!]
15. Test for possible side termination of the repellent fume on human beings specially, children, meaning women, elderberry persons etc.
16. Test the possible side effects, if the repellent is consumed orally or the liquid is somehow spilled over someone.
17. Test the repellent inward a closed room (An air-conditioning room, toilet, shop room etc.) too run into if the fume causes suffocation to the inmates.
18. Drop the repellent motorcar along amongst the liquidator from a reasonable acme (say from the acme of 5-6 feet, because that is the average acme of plug points at homes/offices) too essay if the motorcar is able to avoid whatsoever damage. [Stress Testing!]
19. Test the motorcar nether unlike room temperatures (say inward a attain of 5-45 bird Celsius). [Load Testing!]
20. See if the liquid evaporates after the seal is removed. [Thanks to Santhosh for this essay idea]
I am certain at that topographic point tin displace hold out lot to a greater extent than essay ideas similar these. But I would similar to listen them from my readers. Take this every bit a Testing Challenge too come upwardly dorsum amongst your essay ideas (of course of education yesteryear leaving a comment).
Update: Here my mission is to apply tester's thinking to essay unopen to objects/equipments which are non necessarily run yesteryear software. These mightiness give us a adventure to mean value out of the box too educate our lateral thinking abilities. I possess got taken these every bit "Testing Exercises" for myself too going to percentage my essay ideas amongst my readers, too hence that they could besides bring together the fun! I could possess got taken unopen to software examples, but I possess got purposefully tried to avoid them. After all, nosotros are accustomed to utilization our tester's heed to essay softwares. So for a modify nosotros tin displace essay testing unopen to non-software products. I feel, sometimes it is to a greater extent than challenging to essay a non-software production than a software product. By the way, it doesn't wound every bit long every bit it helps us to develop/sharpen our testing skills. [Thanks "Pradeep" for bespeak me for a testing mission]
Happy Testing…