Business rules are typically implemented separately from presentation, application and data logic. To add to this, they are under constant change due to market requirements, user needs and software upgrades. Business Rules testing will help validate that your system is performing as expected, thus enforcing correct business practices on the user and the system code.
A typical way to gather business rules for your system is by talking to the business analyst and trying to understand what the analyst expects the system to do or how he/she expects the system to behave. A meeting with a developer will be helpful to understand how he/she thinks the system should behave. You may get conflicting ideas here, and it is important that these are sorted out before you have begun testing.
You can expand the table above to suit your needs in order to understand the various normal and alternative flows of the system. Again, mould the table and the data that you gather to suit the type of testing that you will do for your system. If you are doing unit testing, you will use more business rules like the first example (min char length), than like the third example (available only if Option A..)
Keep the following in mind:
1. Divide the system into modules as done by development.
2. For each module, take views based on the kind of testing you intend to do.
3. Direct your questions to the right people. E.g. If you are unit testing a product, a developer would be the right person to talk to. If you are system or user testing a product, a business analyst or end user would be able to answer your questions.
4. If you are short on time, document your business rules in order of decreasing priority.
5. Be specific with your questions. Run through the product or the system yourself, and make a list of questions, before you attempt to ask other team members.
6. Know the difference between a business rule and UI design. For e.g. a warning message to indicate that all information may be deleted is not a business rule, but a UI design.
7. Check if the business rules are incorporated in the system as code logic or are stored in the database and are made use of through a rules engine. This will help you organize your questions better.
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