Software Testing Life Cycle

Test Requirements

· Requirement Specification documents

· Functional Specification documents

· Design Specification documents (use cases, etc)

· Use case Documents

· Test Traceability Matrix for identifying Test Coverage

Test Planning

· Test Scope, Test Environment

· Different Test phase and Test Methodologies

· Manual and Automation Testing

· Defect Mgmt, Configuration Mgmt, Risk Mgmt. Etc

· Evaluation & identification? Test, Defect tracking tools

Test Environment Setup

· Test Bed installation and configuration

· Network connectivity

· All the Software/ tools Installation and configuration

· Coordination with Vendors and others

Test Design

· Test Traceability Matrix and Test coverage

· Test Scenarios Identification & Test Case preparation

· Test data and Test scripts preparation

· Test case reviews and Approval

· Base lining under Configuration Management

Test Automation

· Automation requirement identification

· Tool Evaluation and Identification.

· Designing or identifying Framework and scripting

· Script Integration, Review and Approval

· Base lining under Configuration Management

Test Execution and Defect Tracking

· Executing Test cases

· Testing Test Scripts

· Capture, review and analyze Test Results

· Raised the defects and tracking for its closure

Test Reports and Acceptance

· Test summary reports

· Test Metrics and process Improvements made

· Build release

· Receiving acceptance