Testing Process: What steps are needed to develop and run software tests? 1.

Obtain requirements, functional design, and internal design specifications and other necessary documents 2. Obtain budget and schedule requirements 3. Determine project-related personnel and their responsibilities, reporting requirements, required standards and processes (such as release processes, change processes, etc.) 4. Determine project context, relative to the existing quality culture of the organization and business, and how it might impact testing scope, approaches, and methods. 5. Identify application's higher-risk aspects, set priorities, and determine scope and limitations of tests 6. Determine test approaches and methods - unit, integration, functional, system, load, usability tests, etc. 7. Determine test environment requirements (hardware, software, communications, etc.) 8. Determine test ware requirements (record/playback tools, coverage analyzers, test tracking, problem/bug tracking, etc.) 9. Determine test input data requirements 10. Identify tasks, those responsible for tasks, and labor requirements 11. Set schedule estimates, timelines, milestones 12. Determine input equivalence classes, boundary value analyses, error classes 13. Prepare test plan document and have needed reviews/approvals 14. Write test cases 15. Have needed reviews/inspections/approvals of test cases 16. 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 17. Obtain and install software releases 18. Perform tests 19. Evaluate and report results 20. Track problems/bugs and fixes 21. Retest as needed 22. Maintain and update test plans, test cases, test environment, and testware through life cycle