Why Treeify Uses a 3-Stage Design Process
Product Name: Treeify Version: 0.2-beta Date: 2025.07.10
Designing high-quality test cases is not a single-step task. In real-world QA workflows, it involves progressively refining product understanding, mapping testable logic, and ensuring traceable coverage. That’s why Treeify breaks the process into three clear, structured stages:
1️⃣ Requirement Analysis
Goal: Understand what the system is expected to do.
At this stage, Treeify reads your input — whether it’s a PRD, user story, or feature spec — and identifies:
- Key business goals
- User-visible operations
- System behaviors and conditions
This step turns messy, ambiguous requirements into clear, structured insights, forming the foundation for test design.
🔎 Why it matters:
- Clarifies vague or incomplete specs
- Avoids AI hallucination by grounding test logic in real behaviors
- Enables traceability from requirement to test
2️⃣ Test Object Analysis
Goal: Break the system into testable units, across the dimensions that matter most.
Based on the analyzed requirements, Treeify segments the system into "test objects" such as:
- Business functions
- Data processing logic
- UI components
- API endpoints
- User flows
Each test object is analyzed across one or more testing dimensions (e.g., input-output, exception handling, access control) to ensure complete and non-overlapping coverage.
🧠 Why it matters:
- Ensures atomic, focused testing units
- Prevents redundancy and gaps in coverage
- Supports multi-type test generation (functional, security, compliance...)
3️⃣ Test Scenario Generation
Goal: Generate realistic, step-by-step test scenarios based on each test object.
Each scenario simulates what a real tester would do:
- Steps to execute the test
- Preconditions and inputs
- Expected outcomes
- Edge cases and negative flows
These are written in natural QA language and directly traceable to the test object and original requirement.
🧪 Why it matters:
- Produces clean, readable test cases
- Makes review, iteration, and export easy
- Supports one-click delivery to tools like TestCaseLab
✅ The Benefits of This 3-Step Workflow
| Benefit | Description |
|---|---|
| 🔍 Clarity | Each stage has a focused goal and output |
| 🧩 Modularity | Easily revise or regenerate just one part |
| 🔁 Iterability | Aligns with real QA workflows — review, refine, repeat |
| 🔗 Traceability | Every scenario can be traced back to a test object and requirement |
| 🤖 Smarter AI | AI agents work better with structured stages vs. one-shot prompts |
Treeify doesn't just generate test cases — it thinks like a QA team.
Breaking test design into 3 stages gives you control, coverage, and clarity — every step of the way.