The objective of this assignment is to reinforce your understanding of equivalence partitioning testing and the use of boundary values. To complete this assignment successfully you should have read the relevant material on Equivalence Partitioning Testing in Topic 4 notes and the text book. Define the equivalence partitions and give suitable test cases for the following:
a. Zip codes: Range from 00600 to 99950 inclusive.
b. States: AL (Alabama) to WY (Wyoming)
c. Last Name: One through fifteen characters (alphabetic, space and hyphen)
d. User ID: Eight characters, at least two of which are not alphabetic (numeric, special characters)

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