Agile Test Practice

Test Case Designing

• A brief & recap on Test case designing practice

Review of Test cases

• The importance of doing a sensible and realistic review of Test cases
• Review to ensure coverage of test cases
• Review of supporting information of every test case - like reference, traceability, importance, etc
• Presence of adequate data used for testing
• Review of test suites
• Documenting the review comments
• Communication of review comments
• Adoption of review comments and updates of test suite with the comments - timing of update

Different Suites of test cases

• Unit testing
• Functional testing
• Smoke, sanity testing
• Regression testing
• System testing
• User Acceptance Testing
• Beta testing

Test Execution

• Build generation, deployment and verification
• Sanity & Smoke Testing
• Build acceptance and rejections
• Start, stop, hold, resume & completion of Test Execution
• Outcome of test execution
• A case for or against Adhoc testing
• Reporting of Test execution

Defect reporting and closure

• Identification of a defect and concluding it is a defect
• Reporting a defect - all info to be provided in the defect logged
• Reporting details Do's & Don'ts about a defect
• Tracking a defect through closure   
• Regression test after verifying a defect
• Defects postponed, not fixed, etc
• Reopening a defect
• Various ways in which a defect can be closed   
• Defect triaging principles