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QA Role in Agile, a guide/strategy for QA professionals to work in Agile environment

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<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><h1 style="text-align: left;">What is Agile Development?</h1><div style="text-align: left;">Agile software development is a  group of software development methods  based on iterative and  incremental development, where requirements and  solutions evolve  through collaboration between self-organizing,  cross-functional teams.  It promotes adaptive planning, evolutionary  development and delivery, a  time-boxed iterative approach, and  encourages rapid and flexible  response to change. It is a conceptual  framework that promotes foreseen  interactions throughout the development  cycle (<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Agile_software_development">Wikipedia</a>).</div><div style="text-align: left;">Before  the Agile methodology, methods of software development tended  to be  slow, bureaucratic and inconsistent. This created the need for a  more  adaptive method of software development.   A large number of IT  project  failures lead toward a new way of thinking and delivering the   project:  IT teams around the world adapting the new ideas and getting   them to work and deliver the success to their respective clients.</div><div style="text-align: left;">Agile methodologies encourage teamwork, self-organization, and   accountability. Most agile development teams comprise 5-9 team members   and a single customer representative. These teams normally work in a   single open office to promote teamwork and cooperation. The following   are few agile methods currently being used in the IT industry.</div><div style="text-align: left;"><script async src="//pagead2.googlesyndication.com/pagead/js/adsbygoogle.js"></script><br />
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<li>Kanban</li>
<li>Agile Modeling</li>
<li>Agile Unified Process (AUP)</li>
<li>Agile Data Method</li>
<li>DSDM</li>
<li>Essential Unified Process (EssUP)</li>
<li>Extreme Programming (XP)</li>
<li>Feature Driven Development (FDD)</li>
<li>Getting Real</li>
<li>Open Unified Process (OpenUP)</li>
<li>Lean Software Developmen</li>
</ul><div style="text-align: left;"></div><h2 style="text-align: left;">In Agile there are two type type of test strategies</h2><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"></div><ul style="text-align: left;"><li>Out of Cycle</li>
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</h2><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">In this strategy, development is one sprint ahead of QA. For example development completed sprint/iteration1 and delivers to QA for testing and starts working on iteration2.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"></div><h2 class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">In Cycle</h2><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">In this strategy , both development and QA are working in same iteration/sprints. Development is completing their tasks and QA is doing testing on the same iteration</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br />
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</div><h2 class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">QA Activities in Agile</h2><h2 class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"> </h2><h2 class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj3d5M94q-gmFv4SaktHGlFBTibTr4SjMxJupr0qdxqdwt5NWnxWJ4fESqEYA7w0GLMpD-dOkpwS6omQVuCONZkF7bx63j7XX-Yq5pi-yLAjgJQIa_cTVpZysis9M1bU3Rlss75X0SBZ1Y/s1600/agile+strategy.png" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="222" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj3d5M94q-gmFv4SaktHGlFBTibTr4SjMxJupr0qdxqdwt5NWnxWJ4fESqEYA7w0GLMpD-dOkpwS6omQVuCONZkF7bx63j7XX-Yq5pi-yLAjgJQIa_cTVpZysis9M1bU3Rlss75X0SBZ1Y/s640/agile+strategy.png" width="640" /></a> </h2><div style="text-align: left;">The concept of multitasking and  teamwork  is very strong in Scrum,  but there is not such a thing as  ‘specialist  in everything’ as people  are always better in one area. Even  if they  know many other areas, they  will never have time to do  everything.  Therefore, there are <b>Developers</b> and there are <b>Testers</b>.</div><div style="text-align: left;">In    Scrum there is no separate phase of testing. Rather it is continuous    development and testing. In Scrum, nobody is allowed to sit and wait  for   a delivery. Testers need to be an <b><i>active member</i></b> from the sprint’s start and everyone is expected to contribute.</div><div style="text-align: left;">The following are a few suggestions to a be good, proactive tester:</div><ul style="text-align: left;"><li>Find what requirements mean and discuss the understanding with the development team</li>
<li>Start to collect all information and learn. Capture the domain and analyze all the user stories</li>
<li>Conduct sessions when you feel there is any confusion. You should have clarity of the business and all user stories</li>
<li>Think like a QA, but behave and work like a Scrum Team member. Your  focus should always be on the quality of the product.</li>
<li>You should have the skills to know how to build a release and how to deploy the release.</li>
<li>Don’t consume much time on formal documentation like a Formal Test Plan or QA Plan.</li>
<li>Just prepare a simple Test Plan if all activities are planned in your project.</li>
<li>While  developing test cases, always focus on business processes.   Your test  case must cover “Acceptance Criteria” of every user story.</li>
<li>Write Test Cases as fast you can, do not waste time on long elaborations / clarifications.</li>
<li>Reuse old Test Cases if possible, this can be part of a regression test</li>
<li>If  daily (or personal) build is possible, start testing and probe   the  developed functions. If Dev. resource is not available to provide   you  build/release, do not wait. Build the release and start testing.</li>
<li>Make sure that for every task to be executed there is also Test Case to be written and executed.</li>
<li>Test coverage is important, so create a model</li>
<li>Remember that the sprint has an end time, so make all efforts to fulfill the time line.</li>
</ul><div style="text-align: left;">  </div><table border="1" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="MsoTableGrid" style="border-collapse: collapse; border: none; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-padding-alt: 0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt; mso-yfti-tbllook: 1184;"><tbody>
<tr style="height: 35.1pt; mso-yfti-firstrow: yes; mso-yfti-irow: 0;">   <td nowrap="" rowspan="7" style="border: solid windowtext 1.0pt; height: 35.1pt; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-rotate: 90; padding: 0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt;" valign="top"><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in; text-align: center;"><b><span style="font-size: 14.0pt; mso-ascii-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-hansi-font-family: Calibri;">Requirements   Review</span></b><b><span style="font-size: 14.0pt; mso-ascii-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-hansi-font-family: Calibri;"></span></b></div></td>   <td style="border-left: none; border: solid windowtext 1.0pt; height: 35.1pt; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-left-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding: 0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt;" valign="top"><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;">Participate in the planning meeting.</div></td>  </tr>
<tr style="height: 35.1pt; mso-yfti-irow: 1;">   <td style="border-bottom: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-left: none; border-right: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-top: none; height: 35.1pt; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-left-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-top-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding: 0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt;" valign="top"><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;">Analyze and clarify the requirements   which are mentioned in user stories selected for the current sprint.</div></td>  </tr>
<tr style="height: 35.1pt; mso-yfti-irow: 2;">   <td style="border-bottom: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-left: none; border-right: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-top: none; height: 35.1pt; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-left-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-top-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding: 0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt;" valign="top"><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;">Review the user stories </div></td>  </tr>
<tr style="height: 35.1pt; mso-yfti-irow: 3;">   <td style="border-bottom: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-left: none; border-right: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-top: none; height: 35.1pt; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-left-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-top-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding: 0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt;" valign="top"><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;">Define in scope points</div></td>  </tr>
<tr style="height: 35.1pt; mso-yfti-irow: 4;">   <td style="border-bottom: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-left: none; border-right: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-top: none; height: 35.1pt; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-left-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-top-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding: 0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt;" valign="top"><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;">Define the out of scope points</div></td>  </tr>
<tr style="height: 35.1pt; mso-yfti-irow: 5;">   <td style="border-bottom: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-left: none; border-right: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-top: none; height: 35.1pt; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-left-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-top-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding: 0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt;" valign="top"><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;">Identify  Product risk /Issue</div></td>  </tr>
<tr style="height: 35.1pt; mso-yfti-irow: 6;">   <td style="border-bottom: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-left: none; border-right: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-top: none; height: 35.1pt; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-left-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-top-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding: 0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt;" valign="top"><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;">Initialize the test planning (   identify test types, test environment details, Automation feasibility)</div></td>  </tr>
<tr style="height: 35.1pt; mso-yfti-irow: 7;">   <td nowrap="" rowspan="8" style="border-top: none; border: solid windowtext 1.0pt; height: 35.1pt; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-top-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-rotate: 90; padding: 0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt;" valign="top"><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in; text-align: center;"><br />
</div></td>   <td style="border-bottom: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-left: none; border-right: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-top: none; height: 35.1pt; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-left-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-top-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding: 0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt;" valign="top"><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;">Review Sprint Back log and all supporting   documents</div></td>  </tr>
<tr style="height: 35.1pt; mso-yfti-irow: 8;">   <td style="border-bottom: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-left: none; border-right: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-top: none; height: 35.1pt; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-left-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-top-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding: 0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt;" valign="top"><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;">Add estimates for each divided tasks.   Then add it to the final estimation of a user story.</div></td>  </tr>
<tr style="height: 35.1pt; mso-yfti-irow: 9;">   <td style="border-bottom: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-left: none; border-right: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-top: none; height: 35.1pt; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-left-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-top-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding: 0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt;" valign="top"><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;">Create Test Plan if required (Test   levels, types, strategy ,entry exit criteria). Test plan is not necessary but   it depends on your project nature if you want to create</div></td>  </tr>
<tr style="height: 35.1pt; mso-yfti-irow: 10;">   <td style="border-bottom: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-left: none; border-right: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-top: none; height: 35.1pt; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-left-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-top-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding: 0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt;" valign="top"><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;">Finalize the In Scope , out of Scope   items</div></td>  </tr>
<tr style="height: 35.1pt; mso-yfti-irow: 11;">   <td style="border-bottom: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-left: none; border-right: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-top: none; height: 35.1pt; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-left-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-top-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding: 0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt;" valign="top"><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;">Create the test environment   requirements and setup your test environment. Identify all test date and   every thing you need in up coming phases</div></td>  </tr>
<tr style="height: 78.75pt; mso-yfti-irow: 12;">   <td style="border-bottom: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-left: none; border-right: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-top: none; height: 78.75pt; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-left-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-top-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding: 0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt;" valign="top"><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;">Divide the tasks for each user   story.  For example:<br />
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    Test Case Preparation<br />
    Test Case Execution<br />
    Regression</div></td>  </tr>
<tr style="height: 35.1pt; mso-yfti-irow: 13;">   <td style="border-bottom: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-left: none; border-right: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-top: none; height: 35.1pt; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-left-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-top-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding: 0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt;" valign="top"><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;">Define risks and mitigation plan</div></td>  </tr>
<tr style="height: 35.1pt; mso-yfti-irow: 14;">   <td style="border-bottom: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-left: none; border-right: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-top: none; height: 35.1pt; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-left-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-top-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding: 0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt;" valign="top"><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;">Define automation feasibility</div></td>  </tr>
<tr style="height: 35.1pt; mso-yfti-irow: 15;">   <td nowrap="" rowspan="7" style="border-top: none; border: solid windowtext 1.0pt; height: 35.1pt; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-top-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-rotate: 90; padding: 0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt;" valign="top"><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in; text-align: center;"><b><span style="font-size: 14.0pt; mso-ascii-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-hansi-font-family: Calibri;">Test   Designing</span></b></div></td>   <td style="border-bottom: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-left: none; border-right: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-top: none; height: 35.1pt; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-left-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-top-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding: 0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt;" valign="top"><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;">Create Test Design document</div></td>  </tr>
<tr style="height: 35.1pt; mso-yfti-irow: 16;">   <td style="border-bottom: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-left: none; border-right: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-top: none; height: 35.1pt; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-left-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-top-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding: 0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt;" valign="top"><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;">Create Requirement Tractability   Document some ALM have this feature in agile, so use those tools </div></td>  </tr>
<tr style="height: 35.1pt; mso-yfti-irow: 17;">   <td style="border-bottom: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-left: none; border-right: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-top: none; height: 35.1pt; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-left-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-top-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding: 0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt;" valign="top"><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;">Identify test conditions</div></td>  </tr>
<tr style="height: 35.1pt; mso-yfti-irow: 18;">   <td style="border-bottom: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-left: none; border-right: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-top: none; height: 35.1pt; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-left-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-top-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding: 0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt;" valign="top"><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;">Create detailed test cases. If you   don't have enough time you can create abstract level test cases. </div></td>  </tr>
<tr style="height: 35.1pt; mso-yfti-irow: 19;">   <td style="border-bottom: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-left: none; border-right: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-top: none; height: 35.1pt; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-left-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-top-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding: 0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt;" valign="top"><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;">Do the peer review</div></td>  </tr>
<tr style="height: 35.1pt; mso-yfti-irow: 20;">   <td style="border-bottom: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-left: none; border-right: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-top: none; height: 35.1pt; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-left-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-top-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding: 0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt;" valign="top"><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;">Prioritize and Categorize you test   cases into Smoke Test, Sanity Test, Integration Test, System Test, Shipment   Assurance Test</div></td>  </tr>
<tr style="height: 35.1pt; mso-yfti-irow: 21;">   <td style="border-bottom: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-left: none; border-right: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-top: none; height: 35.1pt; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-left-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-top-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding: 0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt;" valign="top"><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;">Get review with team and approval on   your test cases</div></td>  </tr>
<tr style="height: 35.1pt; mso-yfti-irow: 22;">   <td nowrap="" rowspan="8" style="border-top: none; border: solid windowtext 1.0pt; height: 35.1pt; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-top-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-rotate: 90; padding: 0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt;" valign="top"><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in; text-align: center;"><b><span style="font-size: 14.0pt; mso-ascii-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-hansi-font-family: Calibri;">Test   Execution</span></b><b><span style="font-size: 14.0pt; mso-ascii-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-hansi-font-family: Calibri;"></span></b></div></td>   <td style="border-bottom: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-left: none; border-right: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-top: none; height: 35.1pt; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-left-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-top-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding: 0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt;" valign="top"><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;">Install received builds on your test   environment</div></td>  </tr>
<tr style="height: 35.1pt; mso-yfti-irow: 23;">   <td style="border-bottom: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-left: none; border-right: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-top: none; height: 35.1pt; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-left-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-top-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding: 0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt;" valign="top"><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;">Create test execution plan, your main   reference is your test plan. </div></td>  </tr>
<tr style="height: 35.1pt; mso-yfti-irow: 24;">   <td style="border-bottom: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-left: none; border-right: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-top: none; height: 35.1pt; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-left-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-top-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding: 0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt;" valign="top"><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;">Start execution of your test cases   accordingly to the priority and categorization</div></td>  </tr>
<tr style="height: 35.1pt; mso-yfti-irow: 25;">   <td style="border-bottom: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-left: none; border-right: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-top: none; height: 35.1pt; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-left-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-top-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding: 0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt;" valign="top"><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;">Create and update your defect logs</div></td>  </tr>
<tr style="height: 35.1pt; mso-yfti-irow: 26;">   <td style="border-bottom: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-left: none; border-right: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-top: none; height: 35.1pt; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-left-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-top-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding: 0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt;" valign="top"><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;">Update your execution logs</div></td>  </tr>
<tr style="height: 35.1pt; mso-yfti-irow: 27;">   <td style="border-bottom: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-left: none; border-right: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-top: none; height: 35.1pt; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-left-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-top-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding: 0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt;" valign="top"><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;">Update the tractability matrices</div></td>  </tr>
<tr style="height: 35.1pt; mso-yfti-irow: 28;">   <td style="border-bottom: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-left: none; border-right: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-top: none; height: 35.1pt; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-left-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-top-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding: 0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt;" valign="top"><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;">Create quality metrics to measure the   quality of release's</div></td>  </tr>
<tr style="height: 35.1pt; mso-yfti-irow: 29;">   <td style="border-bottom: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-left: none; border-right: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-top: none; height: 35.1pt; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-left-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-top-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding: 0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt;" valign="top"><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;">Manage your execution plan</div></td>  </tr>
<tr style="height: 35.1pt; mso-yfti-irow: 30;">   <td nowrap="" rowspan="7" style="border-top: none; border: solid windowtext 1.0pt; height: 35.1pt; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-top-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-rotate: 90; padding: 0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt;" valign="top"><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in; text-align: center;"><b><span style="font-size: 14.0pt; mso-ascii-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-hansi-font-family: Calibri;">Test   Closure</span></b><b><span style="font-size: 14.0pt; mso-ascii-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-hansi-font-family: Calibri;"></span></b></div></td>   <td style="border-bottom: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-left: none; border-right: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-top: none; height: 35.1pt; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-left-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-top-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding: 0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt;" valign="top"><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;">Evaluate execution results</div></td>  </tr>
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<tr style="height: 35.1pt; mso-yfti-irow: 32;">   <td style="border-bottom: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-left: none; border-right: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-top: none; height: 35.1pt; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-left-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-top-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding: 0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt;" valign="top"><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;">Evaluate Product risk /Issue</div></td>  </tr>
<tr style="height: 35.1pt; mso-yfti-irow: 33;">   <td style="border-bottom: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-left: none; border-right: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-top: none; height: 35.1pt; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-left-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-top-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding: 0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt;" valign="top"><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;">Create quality metrics to measure the   quality of release</div></td>  </tr>
<tr style="height: 35.1pt; mso-yfti-irow: 34;">   <td style="border-bottom: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-left: none; border-right: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-top: none; height: 35.1pt; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-left-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-top-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding: 0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt;" valign="top"><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;">Prepare Test closure report</div></td>  </tr>
<tr style="height: 35.1pt; mso-yfti-irow: 35;">   <td style="border-bottom: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-left: none; border-right: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-top: none; height: 35.1pt; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-left-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-top-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding: 0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt;" valign="top"><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;">Review your deliverables</div></td>  </tr>
<tr style="height: 35.1pt; mso-yfti-irow: 36; mso-yfti-lastrow: yes;">   <td style="border-bottom: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-left: none; border-right: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-top: none; height: 35.1pt; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-left-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-top-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding: 0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt;" valign="top"><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;">Create sign - of  certificate</div></td>  </tr>
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Role of Software Tester in Software Development Life Cycle( SDLC) - SDLC vs STLC

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<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><h2 style="text-align: left;">What is Software Development Life Cycle - SDLC</h2><div style="text-align: left;">In software engineering, software development life cycle <span class="_Tgc">is a conceptual model used in project management</span>  , a process is a splitting of software development work into distinct  phases (or stages) containing activities with the intent of better  planning and management.  The methodology may include the pre-definition  of specific deliverables and artifacts that are created and completed  by a project team to develop or maintain an application. Common  methodologies include waterfall, prototyping, iterative and incremental  development, spiral development, rapid application development, extreme  programming and various types of agile methodology. </div><ins class="adsbygoogle" data-ad-client="ca-pub-2514150554039033" data-ad-format="auto" data-ad-slot="5981821569" style="display: block;"></ins><h2 style="text-align: left;">What is Software Testing Life cycle  - STLC</h2>The  process of testing a software in a well planned and systematic way is  known as software testing life cycle(STLC), a process is a splitting of  software testing work into distinct  phases (or stages) containing activities with the intent of better  planning and management. Normally STLC activities are performed against  SDLC phases<br />
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The most famous SDLC  methodology is Water fall and V& V Model, so in this article we will focus on these modes<br />
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<h2 style="text-align: left;">Water Fall Model</h2><br />
Waterfall  Model was first Process Model to be introduced. It is also referred to  as a linear-sequential life cycle model. It is very simple to understand  and use. In a waterfall model, each phase must be completed before the  next phase can begin and there is no overlapping in the phases.   Waterfall model is the earliest SDLC approach that was used for software  development .  The waterfall Model illustrates the software development  process in a linear sequential flow; hence it is also referred to as a  linear-sequential life cycle model. This means that any phase in the  development process begins only if the previous phase is complete. In  waterfall model phases do not overlap.<br />
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<h2 style="text-align: left;">What is V  &V Model</h2><br />
The V-model represents a software development process which may be considered an extension of the waterfall model. Instead of moving down in a linear way, the process steps are bent upwards after the coding phase, to form the typical V shape. The V-Model demonstrates the relationships between each phase of the development life cycle and its associated phase of testing.(wiki)<br />
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For every software development activity there is a corresponding testing activity.<br />
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<ul style="text-align: left;"><li>Each test level has test objectives specific to that level.</li>
<li>The analysis and design of tests for a given test level should begin during the corresponding development activity.</li>
<li>Testers should be involved in reviewing documents as soon as drafts are available in the development life cycle.</li>
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<tr style="height: 30.75pt; mso-yfti-firstrow: yes; mso-yfti-irow: 0;">   <td nowrap="nowrap" rowspan="5" style="background: white; border-bottom: solid black 1.0pt; border: solid windowtext 1.0pt; height: 30.75pt; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-bottom-alt: solid black .5pt; mso-rotate: 90; padding: 0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt;"><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in; text-align: center;"><b><span style="font-size: 14.0pt; mso-ascii-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-hansi-font-family: Calibri;">Requirements   Review</span></b><b><span style="font-size: 14.0pt; mso-ascii-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-hansi-font-family: Calibri;"></span></b></div></td>   <td style="background: white; border-left: none; border: solid windowtext 1.0pt; height: 30.75pt; mso-border-bottom-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-right-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-top-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding: 0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt;"><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;">Review the available requirements,   its initial phase of requirements. So you can have requirements in any form   ARS, SRS</div></td>  </tr>
<tr style="height: .5in; mso-yfti-irow: 1;">   <td style="background: white; border-bottom: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-left: none; border-right: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-top: none; height: .5in; mso-border-bottom-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-right-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding: 0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt;"><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;">Define the scope of testing  </div></td>  </tr>
<tr style="height: 32.25pt; mso-yfti-irow: 2;">   <td style="background: white; border-bottom: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-left: none; border-right: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-top: none; height: 32.25pt; mso-border-bottom-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-right-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding: 0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt;"><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;">Define the out of scope </div></td>  </tr>
<tr style="height: 39.0pt; mso-yfti-irow: 3;">   <td style="background: white; border-bottom: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-left: none; border-right: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-top: none; height: 39.0pt; mso-border-bottom-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-right-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding: 0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt;"><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;">Identify  Product risk  and Issues</div></td>  </tr>
<tr style="height: 39.0pt; mso-yfti-irow: 4;">   <td style="background: white; border-bottom: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-left: none; border-right: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-top: none; height: 39.0pt; mso-border-bottom-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-right-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding: 0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt;"><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;">Initialize the test planning (   identify test types, test environment details, Automation feasibility)</div></td>  </tr>
<tr style="height: 31.5pt; mso-yfti-irow: 5;">   <td nowrap="nowrap" rowspan="10" style="background: #F5E9ED; border-top: none; border: solid windowtext 1.0pt; height: 31.5pt; mso-border-bottom-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-left-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-right-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-rotate: 90; padding: 0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt;"><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in; text-align: center;"><b><span style="font-size: 14.0pt; mso-ascii-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-hansi-font-family: Calibri;">Test   Planning</span></b><b><span style="font-size: 14.0pt; mso-ascii-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-hansi-font-family: Calibri;"></span></b></div></td>   <td style="background: #F5E9ED; border-bottom: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-left: none; border-right: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-top: none; height: 31.5pt; mso-border-bottom-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-right-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding: 0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt;"><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;">Review the SRS , System structure and   design. The initial steps is after your review you should have finalized SRS   document</div></td>  </tr>
<tr style="height: 33.0pt; mso-yfti-irow: 6;">   <td style="background: #F5E9ED; border-bottom: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-left: none; border-right: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-top: none; height: 33.0pt; mso-border-bottom-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-right-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding: 0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt;"><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;">Create Test Plan (Test levels, types,   strategy ,entry exit criteria)</div></td>  </tr>
<tr style="height: 27.0pt; mso-yfti-irow: 7;">   <td style="background: #F5E9ED; border-bottom: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-left: none; border-right: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-top: none; height: 27.0pt; mso-border-bottom-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-right-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding: 0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt;"><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;">Finalize the In Scope , out of Scope   items</div></td>  </tr>
<tr style="height: 23.25pt; mso-yfti-irow: 8;">   <td style="background: #F5E9ED; border-bottom: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-left: none; border-right: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-top: none; height: 23.25pt; mso-border-bottom-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-right-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding: 0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt;"><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;">Provide Test Estimates which will be the part of development plan</div></td>  </tr>
<tr style="height: 31.5pt; mso-yfti-irow: 9;">   <td style="background: #F5E9ED; border-bottom: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-left: none; border-right: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-top: none; height: 31.5pt; mso-border-bottom-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-right-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding: 0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt;"><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;">Create the test environment   requirements and setup your test environment. Identify all test date and   every thing you need in upcoming phases</div></td>  </tr>
<tr style="height: 21.75pt; mso-yfti-irow: 10;">   <td style="background: #F5E9ED; border-bottom: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-left: none; border-right: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-top: none; height: 21.75pt; mso-border-bottom-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-right-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding: 0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt;"><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;">Schedule Testing Activities with roles and responsibilities</div></td>  </tr>
<tr style="height: 21.75pt; mso-yfti-irow: 11;">   <td style="background: #F5E9ED; border-bottom: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-left: none; border-right: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-top: none; height: 21.75pt; mso-border-bottom-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-right-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding: 0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt;"><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;">Define risks and mitigation plan</div></td>  </tr>
<tr style="height: 21.75pt; mso-yfti-irow: 12;">   <td style="background: #F5E9ED; border-bottom: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-left: none; border-right: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-top: none; height: 21.75pt; mso-border-bottom-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-right-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding: 0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt;"><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;">Define automation feasibility if required and plan the activities accordingly</div></td>  </tr>
<tr style="height: 21.75pt; mso-yfti-irow: 13;">   <td style="background: #F5E9ED; border-bottom: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-left: none; border-right: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-top: none; height: 21.75pt; mso-border-bottom-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-right-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding: 0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt;"><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;">Review and get approved your test   plan by the QA Manager and PM</div></td>  </tr>
<tr style="height: 21.75pt; mso-yfti-irow: 14;">   <td style="background: #F5E9ED; border-bottom: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-left: none; border-right: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-top: none; height: 21.75pt; mso-border-bottom-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-right-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding: 0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt;"><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;">Create your teams task list with responsibilities </div></td>  </tr>
<tr style="height: 28.5pt; mso-yfti-irow: 15;">   <td nowrap="nowrap" rowspan="7" style="background: white; border-bottom: solid black 1.0pt; border-left: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-right: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-top: none; height: 28.5pt; mso-border-bottom-alt: solid black .5pt; mso-border-left-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-right-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-rotate: 90; padding: 0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt;"><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in; text-align: center;"><b><span style="font-size: 14.0pt; mso-ascii-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-hansi-font-family: Calibri;">Test   Designing</span></b></div></td>   <td style="background: white; border-bottom: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-left: none; border-right: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-top: none; height: 28.5pt; mso-border-bottom-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-right-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding: 0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt;"><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;">Create Test Design document</div></td>  </tr>
<tr style="height: 33.0pt; mso-yfti-irow: 16;">   <td style="background: white; border-bottom: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-left: none; border-right: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-top: none; height: 33.0pt; mso-border-bottom-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-right-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding: 0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt;"><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;">Create Requirement Traceability   Document</div></td>  </tr>
<tr style="height: 27.0pt; mso-yfti-irow: 17;">   <td style="background: white; border-bottom: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-left: none; border-right: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-top: none; height: 27.0pt; mso-border-bottom-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-right-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding: 0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt;"><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;">Identify test conditions and test scenarios</div></td>  </tr>
<tr style="height: 23.25pt; mso-yfti-irow: 18;">   <td style="background: white; border-bottom: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-left: none; border-right: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-top: none; height: 23.25pt; mso-border-bottom-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-right-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding: 0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt;"><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;">Create detailed test cases</div></td>  </tr>
<tr style="height: 21.75pt; mso-yfti-irow: 19;">   <td style="background: white; border-bottom: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-left: none; border-right: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-top: none; height: 21.75pt; mso-border-bottom-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-right-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding: 0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt;"><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;">Do the peer review</div></td>  </tr>
<tr style="height: 31.5pt; mso-yfti-irow: 20;">   <td style="background: white; border-bottom: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-left: none; border-right: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-top: none; height: 31.5pt; mso-border-bottom-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-right-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding: 0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt;"><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;">Prioritize and Categorize you test   cases into Smoke Test, Sanity Test, Integration Test, System Test, Shipment   Assurance Test</div></td>  </tr>
<tr style="height: 21.75pt; mso-yfti-irow: 21;">   <td style="background: white; border-bottom: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-left: none; border-right: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-top: none; height: 21.75pt; mso-border-bottom-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-right-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding: 0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt;"><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;">Get review with team and approval on   your test cases from the developement</div></td>  </tr>
<tr style="height: 15.75pt; mso-yfti-irow: 22;">   <td nowrap="nowrap" rowspan="8" style="background: #F5E9ED; border-top: none; border: solid windowtext 1.0pt; height: 15.75pt; mso-border-bottom-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-left-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-right-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-rotate: 90; padding: 0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt;"><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in; text-align: center;"><b><span style="font-size: 14.0pt; mso-ascii-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-hansi-font-family: Calibri;">Test   Execution</span></b><b><span style="font-size: 14.0pt; mso-ascii-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-hansi-font-family: Calibri;"></span></b></div></td>   <td style="background: #F5E9ED; border-bottom: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-left: none; border-right: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-top: none; height: 15.75pt; mso-border-bottom-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-right-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding: 0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt;"><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;">Install received builds on your test   environment</div></td>  </tr>
<tr style="height: 15.75pt; mso-yfti-irow: 23;">   <td style="background: #F5E9ED; border-bottom: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-left: none; border-right: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-top: none; height: 15.75pt; mso-border-bottom-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-right-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding: 0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt;"><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;">Create test execution plan, your main   reference is your test plan. </div></td>  </tr>
<tr style="height: 21.75pt; mso-yfti-irow: 24;">   <td style="background: #F5E9ED; border-bottom: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-left: none; border-right: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-top: none; height: 21.75pt; mso-border-bottom-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-right-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding: 0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt;"><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;">Start execution of your test cases   accordingly to the priority and categorization</div></td>  </tr>
<tr style="height: 21.75pt; mso-yfti-irow: 25;">   <td style="background: #F5E9ED; border-bottom: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-left: none; border-right: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-top: none; height: 21.75pt; mso-border-bottom-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-right-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding: 0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt;"><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;">Create and update your defect logs</div></td>  </tr>
<tr style="height: 21.75pt; mso-yfti-irow: 26;">   <td style="background: #F5E9ED; border-bottom: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-left: none; border-right: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-top: none; height: 21.75pt; mso-border-bottom-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-right-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding: 0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt;"><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;">Update your execution logs</div></td>  </tr>
<tr style="height: 21.75pt; mso-yfti-irow: 27;">   <td style="background: #F5E9ED; border-bottom: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-left: none; border-right: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-top: none; height: 21.75pt; mso-border-bottom-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-right-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding: 0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt;"><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;">Update the traceability matrices</div></td>  </tr>
<tr style="height: 21.75pt; mso-yfti-irow: 28;">   <td style="background: #F5E9ED; border-bottom: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-left: none; border-right: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-top: none; height: 21.75pt; mso-border-bottom-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-right-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding: 0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt;"><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;">Create quality metrics to measure the   quality of release's</div></td>  </tr>
<tr style="height: 21.75pt; mso-yfti-irow: 29;">   <td style="background: #F5E9ED; border-bottom: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-left: none; border-right: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-top: none; height: 21.75pt; mso-border-bottom-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-right-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding: 0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt;"><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;">Manage your execution plan</div></td>  </tr>
<tr style="height: 42.0pt; mso-yfti-irow: 30;">   <td nowrap="nowrap" rowspan="7" style="background: white; border-bottom: solid black 1.0pt; border-left: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-right: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-top: none; height: 42.0pt; mso-border-bottom-alt: solid black .5pt; mso-border-left-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-right-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-rotate: 90; padding: 0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt;"><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in; text-align: center;"><b><span style="font-size: 14.0pt; mso-ascii-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-hansi-font-family: Calibri;">Test   Closure</span></b><b><span style="font-size: 14.0pt; mso-ascii-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-hansi-font-family: Calibri;"></span></b></div></td>   <td style="background: white; border-bottom: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-left: none; border-right: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-top: none; height: 42.0pt; mso-border-bottom-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-right-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding: 0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt;"><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;">Evaluate execution results</div></td>  </tr>
<tr style="height: 42.75pt; mso-yfti-irow: 31;">   <td style="background: white; border-bottom: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-left: none; border-right: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-top: none; height: 42.75pt; mso-border-bottom-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-right-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding: 0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt;"><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;">Evaluate exit criteria  you defined in your test plan</div></td>  </tr>
<tr style="height: 42.75pt; mso-yfti-irow: 32;">   <td style="background: white; border-bottom: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-left: none; border-right: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-top: none; height: 42.75pt; mso-border-bottom-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-right-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding: 0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt;"><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;">Evaluate Product risk /Issue</div></td>  </tr>
<tr style="height: 42.75pt; mso-yfti-irow: 33;">   <td style="background: white; border-bottom: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-left: none; border-right: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-top: none; height: 42.75pt; mso-border-bottom-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-right-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding: 0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt;"><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;">Create quality metrics to measure the   quality of release</div></td>  </tr>
<tr style="height: 42.75pt; mso-yfti-irow: 34;">   <td style="background: white; border-bottom: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-left: none; border-right: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-top: none; height: 42.75pt; mso-border-bottom-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-right-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding: 0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt;"><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;">Prepare Test closure report</div></td>  </tr>
<tr style="height: 42.75pt; mso-yfti-irow: 35;">   <td style="background: white; border-bottom: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-left: none; border-right: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-top: none; height: 42.75pt; mso-border-bottom-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-right-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding: 0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt;"><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;">Review your deliverables</div></td>  </tr>
<tr style="height: 38.25pt; mso-yfti-irow: 36; mso-yfti-lastrow: yes;">   <td style="background: white; border-bottom: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-left: none; border-right: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-top: none; height: 38.25pt; mso-border-bottom-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-right-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding: 0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt;"><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;">Create sign - of  certificate</div></td>  </tr>
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