Test Deliverables
There are different test deliverables at every phase of the SDLC. These deliverables
are provided based on the requirement once before the start of the test phase and
there are other deliverables that are produced towards the end/after completion
of each test phase. Also there are several test metrics that are collected at each
phase of testing. Below are the details of the various test deliverables corresponding
to each test phase along with their test metrics.
The standard deliverables provided as part of testing are:
- Test Trace-ability Matrix
- Test Plan
- Testing Strategy
- Test Cases (for functional testing)
- Test Scenarios (for non-functional testing)
- Test Scripts
- Test Data
- Test Results
- Test Summary Report
- Release Notes
- Tested Build
Test Metrics
There are several test metrics identified as part of the overall testing activity
in order to track and measure the entire testing process. These test metrics are
collected at each phase of the testing life cycle /SDLC and analyzed and appropriate
process improvements are determined and implemented as a result of these test metrics
that are constantly collected and evaluated as a parallel activity together with
testing both for manual and automated testing irrespective of the type of application.
The test metrics can be broadly classified into the following three categories such
as:
- Project Related Metrics – such as
Test Size, # of Test Cases tested per day –Automated (NTTA), # of Test Cases tested
per day –Manual (NTTM), # of Test Cases created per day – Manual (TCED), Total number
of review defects (RD), Total number of testing defects (TD), etc
- Process Related Metrics – such as
Schedule Adherence (SA), Effort Variance (EV), Schedule Slippage (SS), Test Cases
and Scripts Rework Effort, etc.
- Customer related Metrics – such as
Percentage of defects leaked per release (PDLPR), Percentage of automation per release
(PAPR), Application Stability Index (ASI), etc.