Any good test ideas for geocoding?

[eleeghwater (Ezra)]

Hi,

I am busy testing an application that receives the street name, postal code and country of a user and that should spit out a geocode in long -and latitude.
Been thinking mostly in terms of incorrect address , empty address, syncing same address on 2 different customers etc but I was wondering if someone else has had the opportunity to test this kind of function and if there is anything I could be missing ?

Friendly regards,

Ezra

[conrad.braam (conrad)]

I am assuming you have looked at these threads Ezra

Falsehoods testers believe?

Recently there was a discussion about Falsehoods Programmers Believe, there’s even a GitHub repo. One of my favourites is “Street addresses contain street names”. I recently had an experience where the piece of software didn’t allow you to alter the country you lived in so e.g. I’ve lived in the UK for over 4 years but previous to that I lived in Ireland. Ireland doesn’t really use postcodes or street names once you get outside of the towns so the format of my previous address didn’t match the …

What are fun postcodes to use when testing?

This is a lengthy transfer of the highlights from a post originally posted by @sheymouse on the old Software Testing Club. The intention of the post was to compile a list of fun postcodes (from any country) which can be used when testing, and give a little spark of fun or interest. If I’ve mis-tagged or missed anyone, I apologise! Original Thread @sheymouse started off with some postcodes he uses regularly: W1J 7NT - 149 Piccadilly, London. House of the Duke of Wellington DE12 8HJ - 17 Burton…

Your favourite worst addresses

There are a few fun ones here I love testing anything that claims it can handle Irish addresses though because very few can (even Irish systems). They’re a very tangled web of “fun”. For example, in certain towns, if there is more than one person with the same name, you must include the last 4 digits of your phone number in with your address to ensure it goes to the right person.

As always, the actual business value is the thing to be validating your value against.

[eleeghwater (Ezra)]

Hi Conrad,

With shame I must admit I had not read those yet!

Thank you for referring to them!

Friendly regards,

Ezra

[conrad.braam (conrad)]

Postcode test case design is a popular interview type question, but hope that thread will shed more light on people who may have more pointers for you Ezra. I’m not familiar with the problem domain myself, which is why I suggested looking at how the business uses this data as a way to understand the operational cost and risks for errors. What for example is the tolerance for low accuracy answers which are out by a factor of ~1km on the ground perhaps?