Package Evaluation Test Report
What is involved in conducting an evaluation test for an application package? Here's a guide for reporting the test requirements, procedures and results.
Application Development > Testing
Quality Management Systems Procedures Testing
This procedure describes the process of testing software code or products by the test team. It documents the procedure for the entire testing cycle: generating test plans, scheduling tests, conducting tests and reporting test results. This procedure applies to new development, as well as major and minor releases, including customized solutions delivered to customers.
Test Sign-Off Form
Has your system been properly tested by phase (unit, integration, user acceptance), and do you have the formal sign-off of approval to proceed?
Test Specification Form
How will a system procedure be tested? This form will help you define, order and track your test procedures and expected test results.
System Acceptance Test Plan
The Detailed Acceptance Test Plan document provides and describes the required test activities and timelines for your project team to perform the testing of a system.
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Integration Test Plan Outline
Here is a solid outline of a plan for testing individual development components in context with the overall system.
Test Plan
What tests do you need to perform on the new system and when before moving it into production? Here's a comprehensive test plan to help you cover all the bases and stay on schedule.
Testing Tool Selection Form
Selecting the right testing tool means you must look at a myriad of factors and how well each candidate tool meets your application's testing requirements. This form will help you evaluate the candidates and select the best testing tool for your app.
System Performance Test Tracker
A table for tracking test scripts, scenarios, expected and actual results, and other key information for testing system performance.
Customer Information System Acceptance Test Plan
Improved deliverable! The new CIS system isn't ready for prime time until business users have tested it. This plan provides guidance on the how, who, when, where, why and what of acceptance testing.
Test Schedule
Weak links in your testing could mean project failure. Make sure you know what to test and when.
Test Design Guidelines
How do you develop a good test case? This example spells out system test case specifications.
Tested Installation Package
Before deploying your new application to users, you must thoroughly test its installation in the production environment. Document your installation test procedures and verify that the package passed all tests.
Test Case Checklist
Developing the necessary contingent of test cases to completely and accurately test the system you are building involves detailed thinking and can be a hit-or-miss activity if you improvise. Check off the items here to determine if your test cases will reveal all the hidden problems and ensure that all scenarios are addressed.
Unit Test Script Review
Are your unit test scripts complete and do they check the correct functions?
Reinforcement Bar Site Test Record
The title of this form says it all. Keep track of your reinforcement bar site tests right here.
Integration Test Change Request
Integration testing ensures that each component of the application you develop works correctly within the system as a whole. Record any errors discovered through integration testing and request system changes using this form.
Agile Quality Assurance: Making the Mind Shift
QA in an Agile environment is very different…are your teams ready? Here we look at how QA needs to evolve in order to best support Agile development practices.
Canned Query Test Template
Here's a template, with attached examples, for testing your Data Warehouse canned queries (analytical reports).
Test Environment Specifications
Specify what your application package testing environment should consist of and how it should be configured.
QA System Test Change Request
You've tested the new system or application and found some bugs that require the attention of the development team. This form will help you characterize the type, description and disposition of post-testing system change requests.
Testing Services Review Form
This Testing Services Review Form outlines major factors to consider when testing software, middleware or Web-based applications.
Quality, Not Testing
Testing is not the same as quality, and it’s not a replacement for it either. Our writer hopes to help you identify some ways that you can improve how you manage quality on your own projects--and hammer home that if you plan for quality in the first place, you won’t need to spend so much time fixing the things that have gone wrong.
Requirement Reading
What are the characteristics of a good requirement? What differentiates it from a bad one? Generally, in order for a requirement to be good, it must meet four basic criteria. Do you have what it takes?
Holiday Hiccup
Think you're having a rough project? Maybe you should put yourselves in Santa's sizable shoes...he's not having a happy holiday season so far. Maybe his elves--or someone else (cough*you*cough)--can come to the rescue.
Who Owns UAT?
Just who is in charge of your user acceptance testing? For many, it belongs in the hands of business analysts and corresponding business owners. These individuals collaborate to create the test plans and test cases and then determine how to implement and track their progress.
Performance Testing
Defining and measuring software quality attributes is critical to the success of any distributed application, and performance is no exception. Distributed applications must demonstrate performance in order to assure immediacy. Use this project plan to stay on top of your Performance Testing.
Trial Run Environment
Where should the trial run take place and under what conditions?
Configuration Management Hand-Off Form
The system is ready for testing, and you'd better check to see if everything is there. Formalize the hand-off process between the development team and the testing team with this checklist and signoff form.
Testing Tools Evaluation Form
This Testing Tools Evaluation Form details a complete description of the expected level of service and performance to be provided by prospective testing tools.
Data Warehouse QA Plan
Oops! isn't what your client wants to hear at the eleventh hour in the delivery cycle. Use this sample QA plan to verify that the data warehouse (or data mart) has been designed and built correctly before it undergoes user acceptance testing.
Concrete Placement Checklist
More concrete thinking in action! Concrete placement can go sadly wrong, if you aren't keeping track of lots of details. This checklist will make your life significantly easier.
Quality Management Systems Procedures: Software Development
This procedure defines all the activities involved in software development, from design through unit testing.
Technical Debt for PMs
Technical debt describes the cumulative consequences of cutting corners in software development, but it escapes the attention of many project managers as they focus on scope and schedule. That’s a mistake because it impacts both. Here are questions to help you ascertain the real state of technical affairs.
WBS Planning Worksheet
There is a lot riding on your project's work breakdown structure. Use this worksheet to help you plan the WBS smarter and better.
Data Warehouse Tool Selection Plan
This Microsoft Project plan can serve as a guide to evaluating vendor tools for your data warehouse. It includes a Gantt chart schedule and cost analysis for the complete tool selection process.
Sample SAP Project Plan
Have you finalized your infrastructure questionnaire? What about perform integrated user acceptance testing, or perform data extracts and transformation? Get your SAP project off and running using this project plan.
Software Development: Controlled Introduction
Use this project plan fpr the development of a distributed application system that will eventually become generally available to an infinite list of customers.
Disaster Recovery
Disasters getting you down? Perk up with this Disaster Recovery project plan.
Sample Project: Effort-Based Project Forecasting
Use this plan in conjunction with the effort-based project forecasting article and workbook.
IT System Storage Allocation Matrix
IT system storage is a major part of your e-business strategy. How do you keep track of how much space you are using for production, testing and development, and how much you'll have left for future projects? Start with this matrix.
Overtime Exemption Rules
The FLSA exempts employees from overtime requirements if they meet tests regarding job duties and responsibilities and are paid a certain minimum salary. Do you know what they are?
Software Testing Principles Checklist
Do you know how to thoroughly and efficiently test the software product you have so painstakingly built? Don't risk delivering a faulty software product due to insufficient or unfocused testing. Use this list to check whether you are testing smart--or just testing!
Test Preparation Checklist
Testing your newly built system should not be a haphazard activity during which team members randomly input any value they can think of. Test cases should be planned so that all requirements and objectives are tested. Use this checklist to systematically plan and prepare for software testing.
Pesky Agile
Although the role of the business stakeholder has evolved using agile as a methodology, the business need or pesky constraint typically remains for delivering functionality by a particular date. Hence, project success many times is still measured by delivering functionality by a pre-defined date to meet business goals. Here we offer some suggestions to try if your organization is using an agile methodology--yet expected to deliver a large-scale project that has the same constraints that have existed over time.
Agile Requirements: Oxymoron?
Adult children. Jumbo shrimp. Seriously funny. I’m sure you recognize these expressions as oxymorons — self-contradictory phrases, often with an ironic meaning. Should we add “agile requirements” to the list? Does agile development fit in with traditional requirements practices? And if so, how?
The Project Testing Environment
The key to any successful testing effort is creating a suitable test environment in which testing can occur.
Recipe for Product Innovation
Changing an iconic product can be perilous. Think New Coke. But sometimes change is necessary. From assessing the business case to implementation, here is a look at how a manufacturing giant used a fundamental project management approach to minimize risk when it sought to modify its most popular products.
Project Plan Development Checklist
Creating a project plan is an essential, multifaceted step in your software development project. Use this checklist to make sure you've addressed the critical components and the things you might not readily think of to create a plan that will ensure a successful project.
Document Delivery
When you’re turning in documents and project deliverables to your customer, you need to consider what they’re seeing and what message you’re sending them with the quality of your output. One slip-up can send a very sloppy message that can hinder the rest of the project--and your relationship.
