Topic: When Should Testing stop?

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   HTML clipboardWhen Should Testing stop? 

	"When to stop testing" is one of the 
	most difficult questions to a test engineer.

	The following are few of the common Test 
	Stop criteria: 

	1. All the high priority bugs are fixed.

	2. The rate at which bugs are found is 
	too small.

	3. The testing budget is exhausted.

	4. The project duration is completed.

	5. The risk in the project is under 
	acceptable limit.

	Practically, we feel that the decision 
	of stopping testing is based on the level of the risk acceptable to the 
	management. As testing is a never ending process we can never assume that 
	100 % testing has been done, we can only minimize the risk of shipping the 
	product to client with X testing done. The risk can be measured by Risk 
	analysis but for small duration / low budget / low resources project, risk 
	can be deduced by simply: - 

	• Measuring Test Coverage. 

	• Number of test cycles.

	• Number of high priority bugs.

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Mithi25 Senior Member Joined: 23Jun2009 Online Status: Offline Posts: 288	Topic: When Should Testing stop? Posted: 10Aug2009 at 11:14pm
	HTML clipboard When Should Testing stop? "When to stop testing" is one of the most difficult questions to a test engineer. The following are few of the common Test Stop criteria: 1. All the high priority bugs are fixed. 2. The rate at which bugs are found is too small. 3. The testing budget is exhausted. 4. The project duration is completed. 5. The risk in the project is under acceptable limit. Practically, we feel that the decision of stopping testing is based on the level of the risk acceptable to the management. As testing is a never ending process we can never assume that 100 % testing has been done, we can only minimize the risk of shipping the product to client with X testing done. The risk can be measured by Risk analysis but for small duration / low budget / low resources project, risk can be deduced by simply: - • Measuring Test Coverage. • Number of test cycles. • Number of high priority bugs.
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skumar75.qa Newbie Joined: 18Sep2009 Online Status: Offline Posts: 16	Posted: 18Sep2009 at 3:18am
	Stop Testing:- 1) All the major and Seviority defects needs to be close 2) All the Test cases needs to be complete 100% Pass rate 3) All the Failed test cases needs to complte re-test 4) The project duration and budget is completed 5) All the UAT's needs to be get sign off from customer
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