Steps are needed to develop and run software tests

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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.

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