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Now we move to the next step, which involves partitioning the

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categories that we just identified into choices. And these choices are the

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interesting cases for each category. So the interesting subdomains for each one

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of these categories. So once more, lets look at that using our

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example, the split program. So lets start by considering length. What are

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the interesting cases when we think about the length of a string?

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Some of those we already saw, one interesting case is the case

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of the length of size zero, so a string with no characters.

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Another interesting case is the one in which the length of the

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string is size minus one, so the string is just one character

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short of the size at which it will be cut by the

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split program. And we can continue along these lines, so we will select

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size, size plus one, size twice the value of size minus one,

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and so on and so forth. But even without listing all of

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those, I'm sure you get the idea of what it means to

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identify this interesting cases. Let's see

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the movements that are considering the content.

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So without the interesting cases when we think about the content

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of the string. So possible interesting case is the string that

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contains only spaces. Why? Well maybe because a split is written

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spaces in a special way. Similarly a string that contains special

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characters, like non printable characters,

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like tabulation characters, new line might

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also be an interesting case, something that we want to test. Also

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in this case we could continue and go on and on.

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So basically here you just want to put all the interesting cases

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that you can think of when you consider the content

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of a string. Now let's move to the value as the

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next category. So the value of the input size. And

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here we might want to consider a size zero, special case, a

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normal situation, like size greater than zero, another special case,

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size less than zero or maxint. And these are, if you

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remember, I accepted the cases that we consider when we look

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at this example, before. And also here we can continue and

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go on and on. So, at the end of the

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step, what we have is a set of interesting cases

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for each one of the categories, and now we can

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start to think about how we want to combine them.