Explaining briefly about Test Execution in S/W Testing Life Cycle..?

Test Execution:

- After completion of test design,Tester concentrating on test execution.

- At this stage,we need to compare expected value,actual value are equal or not.

- Executing a formal meeting,Formal test/informal test cases to conform the business requirements and To identify the defects is called " Test Execution".

-While conducting test execution,tester can follow below approaches:

1.Formal meeting

2.Configuration Repository

3.Establish Test Environment

4.Test Execution Levels.

1.Formal Meeting:

 - The Test execution starts with formal meeting.It's conducted by test lead with developers and test engineers.

 - In this meeting,Developers and testers discuss about build version.

 - Build version contains two types of documents,

   They are:

    a. S.R.N (Software Release Note)

         - the document provides the following information.

             1. development and testing team information.

             2. deployment path

             3. If any known issues

             4. Regression testing scenario

    b. DD (Deployment Document)

         - This document provides the set of guidelines for deploying the application in test environment.

2.Configuration Repository:

 - After completion of Formal meeting,Project manager can concentrating on prepare a common repository.It consists of 3 sub-folders.They are:

    i.Development Base:

      - It is one of the folder to store developer related documents like BRS, SRS, HLD, LLD documents,Development plan,Coding and Unit&Integration testing documents.

      - To maintain security for development base,they can use Microsoft VSS tool (or) IBM clear quist tool.

      - For this folder,developer have read and write permissions.

   ii.Soft Base:

      - To store the versions of software between developers and testers,you can use soft base.

   iii.Test Base:

      - To store the test related documents like BRS, FRS, Use case Document,Test plan,test strategy,test scenario,test cases and defect reports and final test summary report.

      - Test engineers to analyzing requirement documents or to analyse the test cases,log in into test base.It is located in server system.

3.Establish Test Environment:

  - After completion of Configuration repository,test engineers concentrating on establish test environment.

  - To install the required hardware and software's,we can take the help of hardware and infrastructure team.

  - the test environment ids called "Test Bed".

4.Test Execution Levels:

 - Test execution starts with Smoke testing and it's conducted by test lead in the test lead system.