Fundamental of Test Process In IT industries 99.9% projects are done with Planning. In Software Testing we required to follow Test Process. Suppose you are tester and team lead given you a application to test. There is difficult to test hole application without planning. You will get some error but this is not a right way to test application.
The Fundamental of Test Process are :
Test Planning and Control
Test Analysis and Design
Test implementation and execution
Evaluating exit criteria and Reporting
Test closure activities
Test Planning and Control Test Planning is a Fundamental Test Process which defining the objective and goal of testing process. Using requirement specification test plan will make more detailed. It is continuous process and performed in all life cycles.
Deciding the scope and risk of testing
Deciding the overall approach of testing
Scheduling test analysis and design process
Assigning resources to different activities
Test Analysis and Design Test Analysis and Design is a Fundamental Test Process which creating test conditions & test cases. In this process performed major tasks like reviewing the test basis, identifying the test conditions based on analysis of test items, writing test cases, identifying necessary test data to support the test conditions and test cases, Designing the test environment.
Test implementation and execution Test implementation and execution is a Fundamental Test Process in which actual work is done. In this process executing test cases with test data.
Creating test suits from test executions
Checking test environments, updating traceability between test basis and test cases
Executing test procedures using test execution tools
Checking actual result with expected results
Reporting errors & creating Incident reports
Evaluating exit criteria and Reporting Evaluating exit criteria is a process defining when to stop testing. It depends on coverage of code, functionality or risk. Basically it is also depends on business risk, cost and time.
Test closure activities Test closure activities is the last process in the fundamental test process. In this process collect data from completed test process and test wares.
Ensure that deliverable have been delivered or not
Closing incident report
Documenting all the systems
Archiving all the testware, test environment and infrastructure.