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Hari

-Do you want boundary value cases for Date inputs?
-Do you want work flow cases where dates are used in the calculation?
-Do you want cases where dates must be calculated and the
used/displayed in the application?

I think most of us have a bunch of interesting cases from Y2K testing.
 Once I know what you are after a bit better, I can give some more
feedback.

You got it.

alpha in fields
out of range in fields (e.g. 13 = month 32 = day
for year how many years back -  how many years forward are valid -- are
invalid
more chars in fields e.g. 333/01/02
special characters in fields **/01/02
is blank allowed (e.g. is field required)
relational edits (to other fields on the screen) - when valid when invalid
1 instead of 01 should be allowed - as users will enter
If an object is launched for entering dates,  can you enter the dates
without the date object -- if yes repeat above tests for both tool and for
entering directly into the field

Take Care and Enjoy,

Glenn Breslin
CQA, CSTE

Quote:> Can anyone give me various test conditions for date field validation
testing?

> Hari

Andrew

[snip]

Quote:> alpha in fields
> out of range in fields (e.g. 13 = month 32 = day
> for year how many years back -  how many years forward are valid -- are
> invalid
> more chars in fields e.g. 333/01/02
> special characters in fields **/01/02
> is blank allowed (e.g. is field required)
> relational edits (to other fields on the screen) - when valid when invalid
> 1 instead of 01 should be allowed - as users will enter
> If an object is launched for entering dates,  can you enter the dates
> without the date object -- if yes repeat above tests for both tool and for
> entering directly into the field

also try these:
-- negative value for each field: -1/10/2002, 10/-2/01, 12/10/-10
-- 00/00/00, 00/00/0000, 0/0/0
-- if a field is not allowed for non numerical input try copy/paste
non numerical characters into it you may be surprised with the result
;)
-- try te smallest and the biggest possible date; investigate what
happens if the limits are exceeded; find limits -- there are always
limits sometimes developers do not even guess there are ;)
-- experiment with delimiters
   -- another delimiter, not '/': '.','-',':'
   -- make their number smaller 10/10/
   -- make thier number bigger 10/10/01/
   -- same with spare delimiter at the begining /01/12/05

There are many more! Never stop thinking! :)

Also I wouldn't call this kind of testing Validation, this is rather
Verification (checking if a thing is done right).

Hope this helps,
Vladimir