Software test management presentation given to the senior management of several Fortune 100 companies to aid them in planning their software development management efforts.

1. Test Concepts and Practices From Concept to Deliverable Presented by T. James LeDoux, Test Management Consultant 1 An Executive-level overview of quality assurance and test management practices and considerations

5. Phases / Levels of Testing Requirements Unit Tests Test Plan Test Scenarios Performance Tests String Tests System Tests UAT Tests Integration Tests Staging Tests 5

7. System Tests Unit Tests String Tests System Tests Integration Tests Functional Tests Security Tests Exception Tests Developer System Testing Test Group System Testing 7

8. Performance Tests Performance Tests System Tests UAT Tests Staging Tests Throughput Tests Stress Tests Benchmark Tests Load Tests 8

9. User Tests Performance Tests System Tests UAT Tests Staging Tests User Acceptance Tests Business Exception Tests 9

10. Deployment Tests Performance Tests System Tests UAT Tests Staging Tests Deployment Tests Release Notes Test 10

12. Test Harness Example Arithmetic Adder A + B = C Method ARADD (A,B,C) Input data Iteration A B 1 2 3 4 5 Except 6 Except 7 1 2 4 5 7 21 S 1 3 7 8 12 K 8 Expected data Iteration C P/F 1 2 3 4 5 Except 6 Except 7 2 5 11 13 19 Error Error P P P P P F F 12

14. Example of a System Overview Diagram 14

15. Test Plan Page 2 2.0 Test Strategy Overview (From Test Strategy document) 15 2.1 Purpose, 2.2 Approach 2.3 Validation

21. Test Case Example 20 Section Description Procedure Name ABC1-TC100.0 Use Case 1 Happy Path Procedure Overview This test covers the 2 steps of the UC1 happy path; 1. Tester confirms no web comments 2. Tester logs into system and navigates to the constituent screen and enters the constituent number Procedure Dependencies 1. Records have been properly created for the constituents being pulled up. Functional Requirements 1. No web comments are placed in the comments fields in the database 2. The IIS is properly set up. Procedure Test Data Test Database Image Suite TDB100.0 Test Procedure Conducted by __________________________________ Date Conducted ________________________ Build Label/Version Pre-Amble Instructions All databases need to be initialized to a known condition. This is typically done by copying the golden database images to their respective databases. Note that for Release 1, the databases will be small and the restoration of the databases will be more manual than is typical with a golden database environment. Procedure Instructions Steps Passed/Fail Data Input Results Comments Setup steps Step 1 – Tester confirms no web comments Step 2 – Tester logs into the system Post-Amble Instructions Do not restore the golden database to this environment after this test. Selected constituents in the database are set up for each test scenario to reduce the need to restore the database.