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Testing Procedure:
What steps are needed to develop and run software tests?

The following are some of the steps to consider:

· Obtain requirements, functional design, and internal design specifications and other necessary documents.

· Obtain budget and schedule requirements

· Determine project-related personnel and their responsibilities, reporting requirements, required standards and processes (such as release processes, change processes, etc.)

· Identify application's higher-risk aspects, set priorities, and determine scope and limitations of tests

· Determine test approaches and methods - unit, integration, functional, system, load, usability tests, etc.

· Determine test environment requirements (hardware, software, communications, etc.)

· Determine testware requirements (record/playback tools, coverage analyzers, test tracking, problem/bug tracking, etc.)

· Determine test input data requirements

· Identify tasks, those responsible for tasks, and labor requirements

· Set schedule estimates, timelines, milestones

· Determine input equivalence classes, boundary value analyses, error classes

· Prepare test plan document and have needed reviews/approvals

· Write test cases

· Have needed reviews/inspections/approvals of test cases

· Prepare test environment and testware, obtain needed user manuals/reference documents/configuration guides/installation guides, set up test tracking processes, set up logging and archiving processes, set up or obtain test input data

· Obtain and install software releases

· Perform tests

· Evaluate and report results

· Track problems/bugs and fixes

· Retest as needed

· Maintain and update test plans, test cases, test environment, and testware through life cycle