ISO Standards Alignment

ISO Standards Alignment

TestLab 29119 is designed around two international standards used in software quality and testing education.

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ISO/IEC 29119-4 — Test Techniques

Part 4 of the ISO/IEC 29119 series defines test design techniques grouped by the source of knowledge used to create test cases:

Category	Knowledge source	Game phase
Specification-Based	Requirements and specifications	Phase 1, 2, 4
Structure-Based	Code and architecture	Phase 1, 2
Experience-Based	Tester expertise	Phase 1, 2, 3

Clause mapping

Standard area	Game content
Clause 4 — Selection criteria	Tutorial; Phase 3 project constraints (risk, objectives, levels, organizational context)
Clauses 5–7 — Specification-based techniques	Phase 1 cards; Phase 2 scenarios; Phase 4 EP/BVA
Clause 6 — Structure-based techniques	Phase 1 cards; Phase 2 coverage scenarios
Clause 7 — Experience-based techniques	Phase 1 cards; Phase 2 legacy/exploratory scenarios; Phase 3 strategy

Pedagogical emphasis

The game repeatedly reinforces that:

• Specification-based ≠ “black-box” and structure-based ≠ “white-box” as the primary taxonomy.
• EP and BVA are complementary, not alternatives.
• 100% coverage does not guarantee quality.
• Technique selection is contextual judgment, not a fixed algorithm (Clause 4).

See Technique Reference for all fifteen techniques with ISO clause numbers.

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ISO/IEC 25010 — Quality Model

ISO/IEC 25010 defines product quality characteristics. In Phase 2, each scenario displays an ISO 25010 badge linking the testing goal to a quality property.

Quality characteristic (examples)	Typical technique focus in game
Functional Suitability	EP, BVA, Decision Tables
Reliability	State Transition Testing
Security	Error Guessing, Exploratory Testing
Maintainability / Testability	Branch Coverage, MC/DC

These badges are pedagogical labels—they illustrate what is being verified, not a one-to-one mapping of every technique to a single quality characteristic.

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Learning progression vs standard structure

flowchart LR
  subgraph iso29119 [ISO_IEC_29119_4]
    Cat[Three categories]
    Sel[Clause 4 selection]
    Tech[Techniques Cl 5-7]
  end
  subgraph game [TestLab phases]
    P1[Phase 1 Classify]
    P2[Phase 2 Apply]
    P3[Phase 3 Strategize]
    P4[Phase 4 Test cases]
  end
  Cat --> P1
  Tech --> P2
  Sel --> P3
  Tech --> P4

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Related pages

• Technique Reference
• Pedagogy
• Game Phases