Testing Activities & Deliverables

The process of testing involves sequence of phases with several activities involved in each phase. Each phase of testing has various documents to be maintained that tracks the progress of testing activities and helps for future references.

The testing deliverables of different phases are significant for monitoring the testing process and for process improvement. It plays a significant role in

• Identify and prioritize improvement areas
• Analyze the results and about the variability and current strengths and weakness and indicate improvement areas
• List improvement areas
• Analyze effectiveness measurements
• Exercise on Test strategy preparation using Maveric template
• Identification of test phases, test activities and dependencies

Stages:

• Test Initiation Phase
• Test Planning Phase
• Test Design Phase
• Test Execution & Defect Management Phase
• Test Closure Phase

Test Initiation Phase

The various activities happening during Test Initiation phase are:

• Functional Point Analysis.
• Risk Analysis
• Effort Estimation
• Proposal preparation and submission.
• Discussion with Client
• Contract sign-off

Test Planning Phase

• The various activities happening during Test Planning phase are:
• Team formation and Task allocation
• Application understanding
• Preparation of Clarification document
• Internal Presentation
• Client Presentation
• Assess and Prioritize risk
• Preparation of Test Schedule(Effort estimation)
• Preparation of Test strategy document.

Test Design Phase

• The various activities happening during Test design phase are:
• Environment set up for Testing by the IT department
• Preparation of Test condition, Test script and Test data
• Preparation of Traceability matrix
• Preparation of Daily status and Weekly status report
• Approval of Design documents by the Client

Test Execution & Defect Management Phase

The various activities happening during Test Execution and defect Management are:

• Environment Check-up
• Test data population
• Execution and Defect management
• Comprehensive (Round 1)
• Discrepancy (Round 2)
• Sanity (Round3)
• Preparation of Daily status and Weekly status report
• Defect Analysis
• Preparation of Consolidated Defect report.

Test Closure Phase

The various activities happening during Test Closure are:

• Final Testing Checklist
• Preparation of Final Test Summary Report
• Test Deliverables
• Project De-brief
• Project Analysis Report