It is also a company level document and developed by QA people. It defines testing approach followed by testing team. Components in Test Strategy:
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Scope and Objective:
About testing need and their purpose
- Business Issues:
Budget control for testing in terms of time and cost
100%----Project Cost
64% Development & Maintenance and 36% for Testing
- Test Approach:
It defines mapping between development stages and testing issues
- Test Matrix (TM)/ Test Responsibilities Matrix (TRM)
- Test Deliverables:
Required documents to prepare during testing of a project
Ex: Test Methodology, Test Plan, Test case etc.,
- Roles & Responsibilies:
Names of jobs in testing team and their responsibility
- Communication and Status Reporting:
Require negotiations between two consecutive job in testing team
- Automation Testing Tools:
Need of automation in our organization level project testing
- Testing Measurements and Metrics:
QAM, TMM, & PCM
- Defect Reporting and Tracking:
Required negotiations between testing team and development team
- Risks & Mitigations:
Possible risks and mitigations to solve( risks indicates a future failure)
- Change and Configurations Management:
How to handle change requests coming from customers during testing and maintenance
- Training Plan :
Need of training to tester before starts of every project testing
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