QA Documentation

QA Documentation

QA documentation is a set of documents that describe test planning, test design, test execution, test results and summaries of the testing activity. QA documentation is an essential tool for facilitating a testing process, making it more systematic and accurate, its monitoring and control. Well-organized and kept up-to- date documentation is the key to testing success. QA documentation includes the following documents: Test Plan, Testing Checklist, Requirements Trace-ability Matrix,Test Cases, Bug Reports, Test Scripts, Status Report, User Acceptance Report, etc. To maintain and automatically introduce changes to QA documentation, such tools as Spec-flow and Cucumber are used, implementing data-driven approach.

Test Plan

The success of a testing activity depends on how detailed, extensive and comprehensive a Test Plan is. This QA document is shared with other teams, such as Project Managers, Developers, etc. Test Plan is a QA document that determines the scope, objectives, processes, risks, resources, strategies, schedule, exit criteria of a specific testing activity for software product. The Test Plan document is usually prepared by Test lead or Test Manager with significant contribution from test engineers.

Three main stages to be included into a Test Plan:

  • Test Coverage: describes which feature will be tested or not, and during which phases.
  • Test Methods: describes what methods and strategies will be employed to implement testing of those features.
  • Test Responsibilities: are tasks and roles assigned to different people or organizations.

There are the following types of Test Plans:

  • Master Test Plan (contains high level information, more static, cannot be easily changed)
  • Test Plan (more specific information, subject to constant changes)
  • Product Acceptance Plan (acceptance testing strategies, dates, etc.)

Tech Gird has solid experience in creating detailed and comprehensive Test Plans which ensure our testing projects are performed in the most efficacious way, and our clients are provided with top quality results

Test Cases

Test cases are the core components of QA documentation. They define what features are expected to function, and how it should be done in compliance with the requirements.

Test Case is a set of test data, preconditions, expected results and post conditions devised for a specific testing scenario to verify compliance with the corresponding requirements. Tech Gird experts realize the importance of good test cases of ensuring effective, accurate and smooth testing process.

Tech Gird test engineers write precise test cases for mobile and desktop applications, web services, cloud apps and Big Data platforms. Test case services from Tech Gird include Test Case design, Test Case Development and Test Case Execution.