A Case Study of Failure Improvement (page 2)

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A Case Study of Failure Improvement (Part 2)

Created and summarized by Brian Marick.

I had discovered that, in Internet Explorer 5.0, any empty cell would display without a border. It was easy to create some simple examples in a Word document. (The border around the image has been added to make the boundaries of the document more clear.)

When converted to HTML, it looks like this. (Remember that this may display correctly if you're using Netscape Navigator.)

Here is a 2x2 table with no text in any cell:

Here is a 2x3 table with no text in the middle row:

Text	Text

Text	Text

Here is a 3x3 table with no text in the rightmost two cells of the middle row:

Text	Text	Text
Text
Text	Text	Text

That was enough to persuade me to send a bug report to the developer and move on.

Related Testing Craft Pages

There's more about handling bugs in the index of techniques.
The approach I'm taking in these pages is kind of dumb. For an explanation of why, and for a better approach, see this case study of adding test support code.

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