Pencil Test Cases And Test Scenario Template In Excel Sheet

Test Case For Pencil Test Case Template

In this post of softwaretestingo, we are planned to discuss one of the very common asked Test scenario in the interviews which about test case for Pencil.

When you go for a testing interview, then the common thing is writing test cases and you may be asked for writing a test scenario for a Pencil. So we are trying to share some of the test scenarios and I hope these all help you to write for the Pencil test case.

One suggestion, Before start, explain, or writing test scenarios for Pencil Test Case make sure you have got all of the requirements. If Not then try to ask all kind of the questions which are running on your mind. So that you can answer well and you will not get stuck after writing a few Pencil Test Case.

You can consider below things when you are going to write Pencil Test Case:

• Non-Functional Pencil Test Case
• Functional Pencil Test Case
• Performance and Load Pencil Test Case

Before writing any test scenario for any object think bigger and try to find out as much as a possible scenario. Various thing like below:

• Basic Functionality: It should write
• Boundary conditions: The lead should be present inside the wood
• Stress conditions: The pencil doesn’t break on holding or dropping
• Usability: The pencil is easy to hold
• Security/safety: Is pencil paint harmful to health

Pencil Test Case Scenario

• Check the Height of the Pencil.
• Check the Strongness of the Pencil.
• Check the darkness After writing something by a pencil.
• Check the comfort while you write or grip.
• Check the thickness of the LED.
• Check Are you able to write on paper, wall, and a few other places.
• Check by a pencil how many meters you can write.
• Check how often the LED is broken or melting while you write on different surfaces.
• Check the colour of the pencil.
• Check after writing the text is readable or not.
• Check the written text are erasable by a normal eraser or not.
• Check is the shape of the pencil is as per the specification or not.
• Check that a normal sharpener is able to sharpen the pencil or not.
• Check are you able to write after you remove the pencil from a liquid?

Let’s discuss some descriptive questions which you may face in the interview.

Questions Discussed For Pencil Test Case

How would you test a pencil?

Ans: Pause for 5 seconds. This is good. I like the candidates who take some time to think and organize their thoughts. Well, I will sharpen it and write on a piece of paper.

Interesting. A minute ago, the candidate indicated that he would talk to the developer when testing an undocumented feature. And here, I find a total lack of application of the said process. I also find that an assumption is being made – the pencil can be sharpened. What if this is a mechanical pencil that needs no sharpening? Since I didn’t provide any requirements, I expected the requirements to be hashed out before any test scenario would be listed. The proverbial cart is definitely before the proverbial horse here.

Note that before asking the question, I clearly stated that the requirements aren’t written down in a document, and I, as a developer, am available to answer any questions and clarify scenarios that would help the candidate test the pencil to his satisfaction.

Any additional test scenario that comes to your mind?

Ans: I will test if this is a colour pencil or not.

This is good. Now the candidate is thinking about different kinds of pencils, and suddenly, the test surface increases. My hopes rise.

What colours would you test for?

Ans: The candidate catches on. What are the different types of colours the pencil can colour in? I respond by citing the rainbow colours and one usual black pencil for writing.

How would you test that the red colour pencil is red?

Ans: Well, Red is Red.

So true. My wife can differentiate among a zillion shades of green. I can see only dark and light green. A partially colour blind person like me would be a terrible tester for testing anything green in colour. I imagine my family malady extends to other colours in the visible spectrum, as well.

I believe the candidate meant that he would write with the red pencil on a piece of paper and compare the colour with The Red colour. If it matches, then the pencil would pass the colour test. However, the lack of any explanation makes me doubt the analytical capabilities of the candidate. I was hoping for some RBG (or some qualitative) colour-matching techniques that go beyond the limited capabilities of the human eye.

Any additional test scenario that comes to your mind?

Ans: I will test how soon the pencil breaks while sharpening.

Nice. We are stepping into the stress testing zone. In spite of my probing, the candidate fails to ascertain the test metric involved here. Merely repeatedly sharpening the pencil and counting the times it breaks is neither a repeatable test nor does it surface anything about the quality of the pencil. If the pencil breaks all too often, perhaps the sharpener is to blame or perhaps too much or too little force is being used to sharpen the pencil. The poor pencil begs the same level of detail here as a crash test dummy. Sadly, it doesn’t get it.

Any additional test scenario that comes to your mind?

Ans: That’s all for now, although I am sure I have missed some. Here is how my ideal candidate would respond.

How would you test a pencil?

Ans: The candidate doesn’t make any assumption whatsoever and responds with a question instead. What are the requirements surrounding the pencil?

How You Will Test When There is No Proper Documentation?

Ans: Do you have any use cases to share? Or stories around the Pencil Test Cases, to tell?

Well, we work in an agile environment. We typically don’t have any formal requirements. Plenty often, the stakeholders place their requests, and the developer starts coding them up. Then we test the features.

Pencil Test Cases Use case 1: The pencil is a special order from NASA and would be used aboard the international space station for writing purposes, for up to a year.

Woah! The writing functionality of the pencil suddenly becomes subordinate to a whole bunch of exit criteria that the poor pencil must pass before it can even write. The mundane run of the mill pencil must now exhibit some rather awesome superpowers. It must be able to withstand the blast off G-force, should ideally need no sharpening, nor break off, nor fall apart easily, weigh as little as possible, …

Pencil Test Cases Use case 2: The pencil is a special monument, shaped like a pencil, to be installed at the architectural hub in downtown.

This pencil would never need to write anything about anything. Ever. Its testing must be performed during the design phase and at every step of its construction, much like a bridge over a river. If the testing commences after this pencil has been built, testing is likely too late.

Understanding the product, the requirements, the use cases, the exit criteria comes first. Test scenarios come later. Then come the test cases, the test infrastructure, and then the test execution; more or less in this order. No requirements, no use cases, no testing.

Final Words:

If you still think that we have missed some scenarios of Pencil Test Case then you can update us by putting that in the comment section. We have added a few formats of the Manual test excel sheet here.

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