Data-Driven Testing Clarified

The drawbacks of DDT outweigh its benefits for most testing needs.

Zhimin Zhan
5 min readOct 17, 2021

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This article is one of the “IT Terminology Clarified” series.

Data-Driven Testing (DDT) is one type of functional test automation that loads test data stored in a table or spreadsheet format. Over a decade ago, DDT was often a highlighted feature in commercial test automation…

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Zhimin Zhan

Test automation & CT coach, author, speaker and award-winning software developer. Help teams succeed with Agile/DevOps by implementing real Continuous Testing.