DateProject MilestoneTesting Activities
Week 1Project ABC approved for discovery Include testing resources as part of discovery project discussion
Week 1

Business Analyst works with product owner to document system requirements

 

System requirements definition:

  • System requirements that are captured as acceptance criteria can be used as test cases for functional testing 
Week 2

Project Manager creates project plan.

Include test planning as part of the project plan:

  • Meet with Release Engineering team manager to consider testing needs for the project
  • Decision regarding manual function testing vs. automated function testing. 
Week 4Developers begin coding application and any needed APIs

Unit function tests for application: Created by developer and/or executed manually by developer and/or BA.

Unit function tests for APIs. Created by developer. Consult with Release Engineering as needed. 

API Performance testing: Validate API performance in isolation from application.

Security testing: For Java applications, developer integrates Veracode into IDE in order to verify code does not have security vulnerabilities.

Continuous Integration: Utilize Travis to execute unit tests automatically for each application build.

Week 12

One application feature complete

API Unit tests: Release Engineering validates API unit tests

Systems Integration: Validate integration of application with APIs and other backend services 

Automated function tests: Begin coding automated function tests for test cases that have been validated by the product owner.

Week 20

Application available in Test environment

Performance Testing:

  • BA or product owner determines test cases and expected response times
  • Test environment scaled similarly to production in order to deliver valid test results
  • Load testing: Validate that average response times are consistent with product owner expectations.
  • Stress testing: Increase load incrementally to determine the point at which the application will fail to respond.

Systems Integration Testing (SIT):

  • Validate integration of application unit tests, API unit tests and other backend services

Automated Function Testing:

  • Validate that UI behaves as expected, based on a set of specified test cases.
  • BA validates automated regression tests and documents edge cases that will need manual testing.
Week 28Go-Live

Automated Function Testing (Regression Testing):

  • Automated regression tests are available to be run for all application builds, to ensure that code changes do not break existing application functionality.

Performance Testing:

  • Available to be re-run against Test environment as needed.

 

 

 

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