Appendix B - Testing Guides

Summary

Introduction

This appendix contains a number of one-page testing guides that can be used as an aide memoir for staff involved in the various phases of software testing. Full details of each of the testing phases covered in this appendix are provided in Chapters 5 to 11.

In particular, the guides are intended to be used by the tester (whether they be a member of the development team (in unit and integration testing), a member of the testing team or the quality assurance group.

This appendix contains the following testing guides:

• Unit testing guide

• Integration testing guide

• System testing guide

• Systems integration testing guide

• User/Operations acceptance testing guide

• Regression testing guide.

For each testing phase, the following summary information is provided:

• Purpose – a brief description of the purpose of this testing phase

• Approach – listing the high-level approach to conducting this testing phase

• Inputs – listing the inputs to this testing phase

• Testing techniques – listing the testing techniques appropriate to this testing phase

• Outputs – listing the outputs from this testing phase

• Quality considerations – listing a number of quality issues that should be considered within this testing phase

• References – further sources of information on this testing phase.

The individual testing guides should be provided to appropriate staff on testing projects, either as photocopies or electronically for reference purposes.