Test Life Cycle

• Identify Test Candidates

• Test Plan

• Design Test Cases

• Execute Tests

• Evaluate Results

• Document Test Results

• Casual Analysis/ Preparation of Validation Reports

• Regression Testing / Follow up on reported bugs.

Test Plan and Test Specification

Test Plan :


A Test Plan is a detailed project plan for testing, layering the possibility of testing, the tactics to be used, the tasks to be performed, resources, schedules, risks, and dependencies. A Test Plan is developed earlier to the implementation of a project to provide a well defined and understood project roadmap.

Test Specification :



A Test Specification defines exactly what tests will be performed and what their scope and objectives will be. A Test Specification is produced as the first step in implementing a Test Plan, prior to the onset of manual testing and/or automated test suite development. It provides a repeatable, wide-ranging definition of a testing operation

Purpose Of Security testing

If your site wants firewalls, encryption, user authentication, economic dealings, or access to databases with sensitive data, you may need to test these and also test your site's overall safeguard against illegal internal or external access.

Purpose Of Usability testing

Usability means that systems are easy and fast to learn, capable to use, easy to remember, cause no operating errors and offer a high grade of satisfaction for the user. Usability means bringing the usage viewpoint into focus, the side towards the user.