Elements and Performance Criteria
- Prepare test environment and gather tools
- Determine structure of system and user accounts to understand the test environment
- Determine areas to test and test objectives, according to organisational standards
- Ensure accessibility of documentation
- Notify user representatives or approval authorities of objectives and scheduled test
- Notify operations staff of scheduled test to ensure preparedness and an understanding of implications
- Prepare test data
- Gather test schedules, according to organisational standards
- Correlate schedules with related functionality, according to organisational standards
- Check testing schedule prior to validation, according to organisational standards
- Prepare test drivers or stubs for test harness, according to organisational standards
- Register test plan, and initiate log entries, according to organisational standards
- Complete test plan and acceptance processes