Saturday, June 16, 2012

What is test strategy?

A Test Strategy document is a high level document and normally developed by project manager. This document defines “Testing Approach” to achieve testing objectives. The Test Strategy is normally derived from the Business Requirement Specification document.

The Test Strategy document is a static document meaning that it is not updated too often. It sets the standards for testing processes and activities and other documents such as the Test Plan draws its contents from those standards set in the Test Strategy Document.

Some companies include the “Test Approach” or “Strategy” inside the Test Plan, which is fine and it is usually the case for small projects. However, for larger projects, there is one Test Strategy document and different number of Test Plans for each phase or level of testing.

What is testing life cycle?.

STLC :
STLC consists of the following :

Prepare for test Plan
Test Design
Test Execution
Bug reporting
Inspection and release
Client Acceptance
Support during acceptance testing
Test summary report

STLC is software test life cycle it starts with :-

1. Preparing the test strategy
2. Preparing the test plan
3. Creating the test environment
4. Writing the test cases
5. Creating test scripts
6. Executing
7. Analyzing the results the test scripts and reporting the bugs
8. Doing regression testing
9. Test exit