What is reporting in software testing and why its needed? What are different types of reports that can be generated as a part of a test execution phase.

1. Reports in Testing
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AFSANA ATAR
SOFTWARE TEST ENGINEER

2. Agenda
 Test reporting in STLC
 Advantages of reporting
 When to create reports?
 What are different types of reports?

3. Test Reporting in STLC
 Software test life cycle consists of different components such as
 Understanding the requirement
 Creating test plan
 Creating and/or re-using the existing test cases
 Creating test cycle to plan the test execution
 Create and retest identified defects
 Each phase has a certain time limit hence its required to plan each task as per the
schedule
 Test reporting is the part of test execution phase

4. Test Reporting
 Reports are crucial part of software test life cycle
 Reports are evidences that are produced during and/or after the test execution
phase
 This is the important artifact which can be shared with the project stakeholders to
update about the current progress of the project
 It is helpful to know if team has any obstacles or any blockers and it can be
addresses early in the phase
 Reports helps to know the percentage of the passed, failed, blocked and yet to
run test cases

5. When to create report?
 Software tester, test analyst or test managers can produce the reports during the
test execution phase
 It can be created either at mid or end of the cycle or once the test execution phase
is over
 Test execution reports generated at the end of each test execution cycle helps to
know the progress of the selected cycle
 Test execution report generate at the end of test execution phase gives us idea
about the blocked or known issues identified by the team and blocked test cases
with the their priorities
 It helps managers or leads to take the go or no go decisions for the product
release

6. Types of test reports
 There are various types of reports that testers can generate using the test
management tools. Some of them are listed below:
 Test Plan execution status report
 Test cycle execution report
 Requirement coverage report
 Test case execution report
 Defect matrix report
 Test case burndown report

7. Thank you!
AFSANA ATAR