We are testing a large enquiry form. It's a governmental form, it's large.
It has 5 steps, presented like a wizard, and in step 6 you get an overview what data you entered. Now there are a lot of dependencies, in the step, but also between the steps.
For example if you choose option 'no' in question 7 in step 1, another two questions come up.
if you choose option 'yes' in question 12 in step 1, another question and textbox come up.
if you choose option 'no' in question 8 in step 1, two extra questions pop up in step 4. And so on, and on.
So the problem we have is that there is no simple flow. If you want to test step 4, you HAVE to go through step 1,2 and 3, so you have to provide testdata (a lot) also for steps that are needed in this step. So one extra test for step 5 means setting up all the data for step 1,2,3 and 4 too.
If there is new mandatory field in step 1, we have to adjust all the tests to provide a value for that field, otherwise the click 'go to step 2' doesn't work.
Is there a pattern or some other nice way for these kind of forms?