Friday, July 20, 2012

Test Summary Report


test summary report is a testing work product that formally summarizes the results of all testing on an endeavor.

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Why Required?
  • Summarizes all of the testing that was performed since the previous test summary report.
  • Enables project management and customer to know the status of project testing.
Benefits
Project Management and end customer can:
  • Get project testing status
  • Get application quality status
  • Take corrective actions, if required
Guidelines
1.       It should be in metrics, charts and table forms, if possible
2.       To write  a test summary report, pre requisites are required – test plan should be completed, test execution should occur and respective test reports should be available.




Test Summary Report


1.0                Overview
Provide a high level description of the overall testing and results.

2.0                Test Coverage/Results
Describe the specific functionality (area) tested and the results of the testing.

3.0                Functionality NOT Tested
Document any functionality that should have been tested, but was either not tested or did not receive adequate testing.  Provide reason why testing was not accomplished.  Such as:
                . Late delivery of product
                . No impact from changes to this functionality based on
. Development assessment
. Not enough time for testing –
. Project Manager approved deferral of testing until next release

4.0                Test Confidence
Describe the confidence level of the testing that was performed.  As an outline for now we can use the following levels:
                . Extremely High
                . High
                . Medium
                . Low

Provide the reason for the rating if not Extremely High or High.

5.0                Test Issues and Concerns
Document any issues or concerns you may have about the release.  This may encompass things such as:
. No documentation of changes in area xxxx made testing pretty darn difficult.
                . Late delivery of release caused impact to available resources.
                . Slip of code complete caused a one-week impact to the test schedule

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