Application Testing Life Cycle

Application Testing Life Cycle

This Life Cycle is used for standard applications that are built from various custom technologies and follow the normal or standard testing approach. The Application or custom-built Lifecycle and its phases is depicted below:

Test Requirements
* Requirement Specification documents
* Functional Specification documents
* Design Specification documents (use cases, etc)
* Use case Documents
* Test Trace-ability Matrix for identifying Test Coverage


Test Planning
* Test Scope, Test Environment
* Different Test phase and Test Methodologies
* Manual and Automation Testing
* Defect Mgmt, Configuration Mgmt, Risk Mgmt. Etc
* Evaluation & identification – Test, Defect tracking tools

Test Environment Setup
* Test Bed installation and configuration
* Network connectivity's
* All the Software/ tools Installation and configuration
* Coordination with Vendors and others

Test Design
* Test Traceability Matrix and Test coverage
* Test Scenarios Identification & Test Case preparation
* Test data and Test scripts preparation
* Test case reviews and Approval
* Base lining under Configuration Management

Test Automation
* Automation requirement identification
* Tool Evaluation and Identification.
* Designing or identifying Framework and scripting
* Script Integration, Review and Approval
* Base lining under Configuration Management

Test Execution and Defect Tracking
* Executing Test cases
* Testing Test Scripts
* Capture, review and analyze Test Results
* Raised the defects and tracking for its closure

Test Reports and Acceptance
* Test summary reports
* Test Metrics and process Improvements made
* Build release
* Receiving acceptance