Test Readiness:
- Who is the client and which process to be followed.
- Know your project team including dev and business.
- Project size (Large, Medium, Small)
- Project schedule including Go-Live date
- Requirements understanding and Priority of those requirements.
- Highlight the requirement gaps if any
- Platform, where execution needs to perform like,
- Browsers
- Devices
- List of deliverables to the client (list of documents)
- What is Test strategy and Test plan to execute the targeted test cases. It must be reviewed by project team and agreed.
- List of Resources and skill set which match to the current project execution
- Environment and its contingency if any.
- Test data availability and constraints if any scenarios needs to exempt
- Test scenarios and Test case preparation. It must be reviewed by project team and approved.
- Review for all deliverables before execution starts. eg: Test strategy/ test approach, Test Plan, Test Cases etc.
- Test management Tools and Testing Tools readiness before execution starts
- Entry criteria check list
- Environment shakedown testing
- Execute, high priority test cases first to identify the critical defects at early stage.
- Verify the execution status against the burn down chart to keep the project on track for implementation
- All the testing resources should be knowing the defects raised by others. to identify the defect trend.
- Schedule the defect triage calls daily to discuss on the outstanding defects and ETA for fix.
- Test case execution should be done effectively.
- Check every day, execution Pass %. If % pass is not as planned, check what is the gap.?
- Check every day, defect rate and analyse, how the defect rate is impacting the test execution
- Check if any CRs are anticipated and plan the execution accordingly.
- Have a frequent catch-up meetings with the team to understand the issues and challenges if any.
- Exit criteria check list
- Test completion report and testing recommendations (Positives / Negatives) to move into the next phase.
- Always keep the client confidence good and high on testing team.