There is a lot of attention given to automated software testing using tools such as QTP and Function Tester. But not much attention is paid to test data management. Let's talk about you and I and how pair-wise testing will dramatically improve the quality and productivity of your automated software testing efforts.

Software automated software testing raises a few questions:

1) Who is testing the tests themselves?
2) Where does the test data come from?
3) How can the test data be tuned by the requirements?
4) How can you create requirements – test traceability matrix?
5) How can the approach be integrated with automated testing tools?

Understanding principles like:
• Exhaustive testing
• t-wise testing
• Orthogonal arrays
• All-pairs testing
• Automated traceability

These and other principles will be discussed in conjunction with automated software testing to help you understand the challenges of automated testing and an approach that will accelerate the your automated testing process.