Elements and Performance Criteria
- Plan test effort and develop test strategy for an application software
- Critically analyse functionalities of an application software from the system design document and create test strategy for new telecommunications product line
- Produce steps for test strategy, including attributes of each step according to enterprise policy
- Produce test strategy for evaluating suitability of application software for integration into telecommunications network
- Critically analyse test strategy and identify types of risks that would hinder test performance or reality
- Plan test strategy for regime
- Produce phases of a test cycle for a test regime according to system design document
- Assess a range of tests required to evaluate performance and functionality of application software and determine tests required to suit the test regime
- Evaluate features of testing tool and debuggers and select an appropriate tool to test software application and detect faults
- Evaluate elements of test plan that cover testing functionality of the application software
- Design test plan and produce test reviews
- Determine forecast time, effort and cost for low and medium intensity projects to perform testing
- Develop a test case or test scenario with prerequisite states based on requirements to generate expected test results for test plan
- Produce test plan for specific phases based on requirements of project specifications for the application software
- Produce test reporting associated with particular test phases within test plan
- Critically analyse test reports and evaluate impact of test plan on the testing environment
- Manage progress of test plan to minimise risks associated with testing and ensure test compliance with test requirements
- Report any detected defects to product evaluation personnel, and prepare a strategy to manage defects
- Manage test traceability
- Create a traceability matrix to correlate relationship between marketing requirements and detailed requirements of software product to matching parts of design, test plan and test cases
- Critically analyse testing metrics produced by test tool to manage tracking of defects and plan process improvements based on the metrics
- Produce an evaluation report from traceability matrix to manage defects or failures from the test plan