Software Quality Assurance ProcessHow the entire Quality Assurance Process is being carried out in a company (i.e.) in

practical environment?.

Prepared By Bala KQA Analyst

How the entire Quality Assurance Process is being carried out in TWC (i.e) in practical environment?

Here I focus on software Testing actual working process. We have got a good experience of software Quality Assurance related activities. So I will try to share more practically rather than theoretically.

Whenever we get any new project there is initial project familiarity meeting. In this meeting we basically discuss on who is client? what is project duration and when is delivery? Who is involved in project i.e. manager, Tech leads, QA leads, developers, testers etc..?

How the entire Quality Assurance Process is being carried out in TWC(i.e) in practical environment?

From the SRS (software requirement specification) project plan is developed. The responsibility of testers is to create Software Test Plan from this SRS and project plan. Developers start coding from the design. The project work is divided into different modules and these project modules are distributed among the developers. In meantime testers responsibility is to create Traceability Matrix test scenario and write Test Cases according to assigned modules. We try to cover almost all the functional test cases from SRS. The data can be maintained manually in some excel test case templates or bug tracking tools.

How the entire Quality Assurance Process is being carried out in a company (i.e) in practical environment?

When developers finish individual modules, those modules are assigned to testers. Smoke testing is performed on these modules and if they fail this test, modules are reassigned to respective developers for fix. For passed modules manual testing is carried out from the written test cases. If any Bug is found that get assigned to module developer and get logged in Defect Tracking Template. On bug fix tester do bug verification and regression testing of all related modules. If bug passes the verification it is marked as verified and marked as closed. Otherwise above mentioned bug cycle gets repeated.(I will cover bug life cycle in other post)

How the entire Quality Assurance Process is being carried out in a company (i.e) in practical environment?

Different tests are performed on individual modules and integration testing on module integration. These tests includes Compatibility testing i.e. testing application on different hardware, OS versions, software platform, different browsers etc. Load and stress testing is also carried out according to SRS. Finally system testing is performed by creating virtual client environment. On passing all the test cases Test Report is prepared and decision is taken to release the product!

How the entire Quality Assurance Process is being carried out in a company (i.e) in practical environment?

Let’s take a look how testing is carried out in the already existing System (Vendor Product).

Methodology of Product Quality Assurance developed by a Vendor.

PPQA audits With the help of SRS: Peer Reviews with the help of SRS : Validation testing: Data Driven Testing: Load/Stress testing: Compatibility testing: Usability testing:

Let’s take a look how testing is carried out in the already existing System (Vendor Product).

Let’s take a look how testing is carried out in the New Systems (Developing from Scratch)

Requirements This section of the test plan lists all requirements to be tested.

Functional Test Requirements – Enlist the functions to be tested. Design Requirements - Testing the user interfaces. Integration Requirements - the requirements for testing the flow of data from one component to the other

may be included if it will be part of the test plan.

Test StrategyThis Section will describe how the test objectives will be met for each type of testing

Objective Technique Traceability Matrix Test Cases Risks/Assumptions Tools

Resources Identify the resource roles and responsibilities that will be required for test plan execution.

 Project Plan - develop a project plan showing the phases, tasks, and resources.

Let’s take a look how testing is carried out in the New Systems (Developing from Scratch) A good test plan is the cornerstone of a successful testing implementation.

While every testing effort may be unique, most test plans include a common content framework. This article presents the components that make up this framework, and serves as a guide to writing your own test plan.

Schedule Document the schedule in which the application under test is to be made available for testing, and the

estimated time for executing test cases.

Deliverables List all the deliverables that are associated with the testing effort, and where copies of these deliverables or

documents may be located.

Defect Tracking and Reporting - Describe any ratings, categories or classifications used to identify or prioritize defects.

Critical Severe High Cosmetic

Approval - The test plan should be reviewed by all parties responsible for its execution, and approved by the test team, product and development managers.

Results - When the test effort is complete, document the results.

Let’s take a look how testing is carried out in the New Systems (Developing from Scratch)

QA Process life Cycle Diagram

Test PlanTraceability

Matrix Preparation

Test Case Preparation

Test Case Execution

Validate Tests (Expected Vs

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Analyze the Test Results

Lets take a look, How the Testing is Carried out Practically.

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Once the Application/Modules/Screens are being Freeze by Manual Testing, then Integrate the Application Automated.

Do the Above Steps Regressively, in order to Check the Application more and more for both Tested as well as untested Modules

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