Domain Testing: Divide and Conquer - Testing Education

pairs combination is an example of this ability. This is not an intellectual
ability. The next five learning levels require intellectual skills.
• Comprehension: This is the ability to understand and grasp the
instructional material. The ability to understand what is meant by boundary
values of a variable is an example of this learning level.
• Application: This is the ability to use the knowledge and skills learned
during the instruction by putting it to practice in real scenarios or situations.
Being able to identify variables of a real program and apply equivalence
class analysis to the variables to come up with equivalence classes for the
variable is an example of this sort of learning level.
• Analysis: This is the ability to see patterns, correlate different information
and identify components of a problem. Being able to realize when just
applying boundary value analysis is a good idea and when finding
additional test cases based on special value testing is a better idea is an
example of this kind of ability.
• Synthesis: This is the ability to use different pieces of information and put
them together to draw inferences and possibly create new knowledge and
concepts. Being able to put all different concepts in domain testing together
and correctly apply them to any given program or software is an example of
this ability.
• Evaluation: This is the ability to make judgments about the knowledge
acquired and concepts learned through an instruction. This is also the ability
to compare the learned concepts with other similar concepts and make
informed decisions about their value, perhaps even being able to determine
to what extent the instructional material addresses the higher-level
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