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| Test suites help manage the complexity of the test implementation. Many system test efforts fail because testers get
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| lost in the minutia of all of the detailed tests, and struggle to organize work and communicate results at an
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| appropriate level of detail. Much like UML packages, test suites provide a hierarchy of encapsulating containers to
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| help manage the test implementation. They collect tests together in related groups that can be planned, managed, and
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| assessed in a meaningful way.
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| This might be one or more automated regression test suites, but a test suite can also be a work plan for implementing a
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| set of related manual test scripts. Test suites can be nested hierarchically, so one test suite can contain others.
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| Consider creating test suites that arrange the available test scripts, in addition to other test suites, in many
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| different combinations: the more variations you have, the more you'll increase coverage and the potential for finding
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| errors. Give thought to a variety of test suites that will cover the breadth and depth of the target test items.
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| Remember that a single test script (or test suite) may appear in many different test suites, so your tools should
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| prevent unnecessarily repeated runs of the same test.
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| At a minimum, it's a good practice to start by organizing suites along the lines of major functional areas in the
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| application. However, test suites might also relate directly to a subsystem or other system design element, or to
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| requirements such as quality dimensions,&nbsp;standards compliance, and other requirements&nbsp;concerns that cut
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| across the internal system elements.&nbsp;
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| Some test automation tools provide the ability to automatically generate or assemble test suites.
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