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.