Software Testing Life Cycle

STLC – Software Testing Life Cycle:

Software testing is the process of combination of multiple activities. It is not the single or unique activity. The Group of All these multiple activities or stages is called Software Testing Life Cycle.

Requirement Analysis:

 First Stage of STLC, QA team will analysis the requirement for the testing point of view and understands the requirement properly. Testing Engineers can interact with Client, Business Analyst and another related member to clarification about requirement. Requirement can be functional and non-functional.

-          Activities:

i.                    Need to confirm what type of testing to be done.

ii.                  Collected all the required details on the base of testing priorities and focus on them.

iii.                Preparation of Requirement Traceability Matrix (RTM)

iv.                Confirm and generate the required environment which is supposed for testing.

v.                  Analysis for Automation Feasibility (On Requirement).

-          Deliverables

i.                    Requirement Traceability Matrix (RTM)

ii.                  Analysis for Automation Feasibility (On Requirement).

Test Planning:

Next Phase of Software Test Life Cycle, after collected and analyzing the client requirement from all the ways. Now senior member of Testing Team will prepare the Test Plan.

-          Activities:

i.                    Making the Test Strategy/Plan document for multiple types of Testing.

ii.                  Selection of Testing Tools

iii.                Estimation of Testing effort

iv.                Determining and Planning the responsibilities and roles for resources.

v.                  Requirement of Training

-          Deliverables:

i.                    Testing strategy / Plan documentation

ii.                  Documentation for Effort Estimation

Test Case Development:

Third or next step of STLC, in this phase Test team will create, verify and rework for test scripts and test cases. Testing data will also created, reviewed in this stage, and if required then rework as well.

-          Activities:

i.                    Automation scripts and Test Cases creation

ii.                  Baseline and Review the scripts and test cases

iii.                Test data creation and review

-          Deliverables:

i.                    Testing Scripts/cases

ii.                  Test Data

Test Environment Setup

Next step of Software Testing Life cycle is Test Environment Setup. Test Environment setup stand for hardware and software conditions which are the responsible for application testing. This is not required that test team will do this and this activity can be performed parallel to Test Case Development stage.

-          Activities:

i.                    Testing team will understand the environment required for testing and create the list for necessary hardware and software accessories.

ii.                  Test Data and Test Environment will be set up

iii.                When build then smoke testing will be performed

-          Deliverables:

i.                    Environment prepared with Testing data set up

ii.                  Result of Smoke Testing

Test Case Execution

Next and second last step of STLC, in these step test cases will be executed on the base of prepared test plan. Found bug will be reported for correction the bugs and then performed the retesting.

-          Activities:

i.                    Execution of Test cases according to test plan

ii.                  Documentation of test case execution result and log the defects if there are failed test cases

iii.                Defect need to map with test cases in RTM

iv.                Retesting the fixed bugs

v.                  Track the defects to closure

-          Deliverables:

i.                    RTM completed with the status of execution

ii.                  Updated result for Test Cases

iii.                Bug Reports

Test Cycle Closure

Final and closing step of STLC or software testing life cycle. Final Test cases result will be discussed and analysis by QA team. QA Team will find and analysis the required lack points, positive points and other required point for future and create new documentation for best practice for future.

-          Activities:

i.                    Evaluation of Consume Time, Cost, Test case coverage, Software, Quality, Critical Business Objectives

ii.                  Based on above mentioned parameters need to prepare the test metrics

iii.                Documentation of project to easily learning out

iv.                Test closure report preparation

v.                  Quantitative and Qualitative reporting of quality for the work application to the client

vi.                Analysis the Test Result to get the distribution of bugs by severity and type.

-          Deliverables:

i.                    Test closure Reporting

ii.                  Test Metrics Reporting

Software Testing Life Cycle Stages

STLC Stages

Software Testing Life Cycle Final Stage

Software Testing Principle	Software Development Life Cycle	Unit Testing
Integration Testing	System Acceptance Testing	Sanity and Smoke Testing
Regression Testing	Non Functional Testing	Test Case
Test Scenario	Software Testing Rules	SQL For Software Testing
Test Case Design and Example	Test Base	Traceability Matrix
Boundary Value analysis	Decision Table in Software Testing	State Transition Definition
Use Case Testing	Testing Review	Techniques of Test Estimation
Test Plan Structure	Definition of Bug	Bug Life Cycle
Automation Testing Tools	Test Web Based Application	Software Testing Types
Software Testing Techniques	Techniques in Software Testing	Test Data
Software Testing Life Cycle	Black Box Testing	Difference between Black Box testing and White Box Testing
Smoke and Sanity Testing	Testing Methodology	Extreme Programming
White Box Testing	System Software Testing	Performance Testing
Usability Testing	User Acceptance Testing	Regression Testing
MANUAL SOFTWARE TESTING	Automation software Testing	Functional Testing

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