Software Testing Life Cycle In Software Testing

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STLC-Software Testing Life Cycle in Software Testing 

STLC Stands for Software testing life cycle, it is a Procedure to test the application, STLC is a subset of SDLC. In the STLC process, different activities are carried out to improve the quality of the product. Software testing is a critical part of preparing software for use, and an STLC helps make this process more sophisticated, consistent, and effective.

Software Testing Life Cycle in Software Testing - STLC

Phases of STLC 

The Various STLC Phases are given below...

• System Study

• Prepare Test Plan

• Write Test Cases

• Traceability Matrix

• Test Execution

• Test Execution Report

• Retrospect Meeting

System Study 

In this phase, the system requirement is given to the testing team what to be tested. they go through requirements and understand and if they have any doubts they contact the team lead, and manager ....to clarify their doubt.

Prepare Test Plan 

A test plan is a document that derives all future activities of the project. All future testing activities are planned and put into a document and this document is known as Test Plan. It contains – the number of engineers needed for the project, who should test which feature, how the defects must be communicated to the development team when we should start and finish writing test cases, executing test cases, what types of testing we use to test for the application etc.

Test Case Writing

we write test cases for each feature. These test cases are reviewed, and after all mistakes are corrected and once the test cases are approved – then they are stored in the test case repository.

Traceability Matrix 

It is a document that ensures that every requirement has a test case.
Test cases are written by looking at the requirements and test cases are executed by looking at the test cases. If any requirement is missed i.e., test cases are not written for a particular requirement, then that particular feature is not tested which may have some bugs. Just to ensure that all the requirements are converted, a traceability matrix is written. 

Test Execution

In the test execution phase of the STLC tester executes all written test cases.

Defect Tracking 

any bug found by the testing team is sent to the development team. This bug has to be checked by the testing team if it has been fixed by the developers.

Test Execution Report

 Send it to the customer – contains a list of bugs(major, minor and critical), a summary of the test pass, fail, etc, and when this is sent, according to the customer – the project is over.
TER is prepared after every test cycle and sent to the development team, testing team, management, and customer(depending on if it is a fixed bid project or a time & material bid project).
The last TER of the last test cycle is always sent to the customer. And this means that the project is over according to the customer.

Retrospect meeting 

(also called Post Mortem Meeting / Project Closure Meeting)
The Test Manager calls everyone in the testing team for a meeting and asks them for a list of mistakes and achievements in the project.

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