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We are studying various testing techniques in Software Quality Assurance course and i got confused when came across "basis path testing" and "control flow testing". Both these techniques apparently look same even their steps are also almost same but i need to find some concrete difference among them. I am unable to differentiate them. Any help in this regard would be appreciated.

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Basis Path testing just ensures the coverage of all the paths in the program but control flow testing test the conditions as well.

So for a simple example, if there is a decision node in the program as:

if( x >= 2 )

Here, in this case there would be two paths:

  1. x >= 2
  2. x < 2

But in control flow there would be three combinations, as following:

  1. x > 2
  2. x = 2
  3. x < 2

It was a very basic example, I hope that helps.

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  • Thankyou so much it pretty much clears the ambiguity, i would appreciate it you could provide some more insight, any comparatively difficult example or some link which would throws more light on it. – mujtabaidrees94 Apr 06 '14 at 13:42
  • Please go through this link: http://ecomputernotes.com/software-engineering/testing-techniques . Sorry for replying late. – Meetu Singh May 05 '14 at 02:59