1.4.3 TEST WORK PRODUCTS

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Test work products are created as part of

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the test process.

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Just as there is significant variation in the way that organizations implement the test process, there is also significant variation in the

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the types of work products created during that process,
the ways those work products are organized and managed, and
the names used for those work products.

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ISO standard (ISO/IEC/IEEE 29119-3) may also serve as a guideline for

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test work products.

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Many of the test work products described in this section can be captured and managed using

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test management tools
defect management tools

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Test planning work products typically include

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one or more test plans.

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The test plan includes information about

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the test basis
exit criteria

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exit criteria (or definition of done) which will be used during test

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monitoring and control.

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Test monitoring and control work products typically include various types of test reports, including

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test progress reports (ongoing and/or a regular basis)
and
test summary reports (at milestones completion).

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All test reports should provide

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up-to-date and audience-relevant details about the test progress
a summary of the test execution results

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Test monitoring and control work products should also address project management concerns, such as

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task completion,
resource allocation and usage
effort.

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Test analysis work products include defined and prioritized test conditions, each of which is ideally

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bidirectionally traceable to the specific element(s) of the test basis it covers.

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For exploratory testing, test analysis may involve the creation of

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test charters.

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Test analysis may also result in the discovery and reporting of defects in

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the test basis.

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Test design results in test cases and sets of test cases to exercise

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the test conditions defined in test analysis.

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It is often a good practice to design high-level test cases,

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without concrete values for input data and expected results.

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high-level test cases are reusable across

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multiple test cycles with different concrete data,

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Ideally, each test case is bidirectionally traceable to

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the test condition(s) it covers.

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Test design also results in:

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the design and/or identification of the necessary test data
the design of the test environment
the identification of infrastructure and tools

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the extent to which Test design results are documented

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varies significantly.

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Test implementation work products include:

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Test procedures and the sequencing of those test procedures
Test suites
A test execution schedule

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Ideally, once test implementation is complete, achievement of coverage criteria established in the test plan can be demonstrated via bi-directional traceability

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between test procedures and specific elements of the test basis,
through the test cases
and test conditions.

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In some cases, test implementation involves creating work products using or used by tools, such as

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service virtualization
automated test scripts.

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Test implementation also may result in the creation and verification of

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test data and the test environment.

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The completeness of the documentation of the data and/or environment verification results

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may vary significantly.

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The test data serve to assign concrete values to

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the inputs of test cases.
expected results of test cases.

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concrete values, together with explicit directions about the use of the concrete values, turn high-level test cases into

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executable low-level test cases.

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The same high-level test case may use different test data when

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executed on different releases of the test object.

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The concrete expected results which are associated with concrete test data are identified by

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using a test oracle.

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In exploratory testing, some test design and implementation work products may be

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created during test execution,

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the extent to which exploratory tests (and their traceability to specific elements of the test basis) are documented

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may vary significantly.

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Test conditions defined in test analysis may be

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further refined in test implementation.

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Test execution work products include:

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Documentation of the status of individual test cases or test procedures
Defect reports
Documentation about which test item(s), test object(s), test tools, and testware were involved in
the testing

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test item(s) involved in the testing

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test object(s), test tools, and testware

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some test cases or test procedures status

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ready to run, pass, fail, blocked, deliberately skipped, etc.

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Ideally, once test execution is complete, the status of each element of the test basis

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can be determined and reported via bi-directional traceability with the associated the test procedure(s).

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For example, once test execution is complete, we can say which requirements have

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passed all planned tests,
failed tests and/or have defects associated with them
planned tests still waiting to be run.

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determination and reporting the status of each element of the test basis, enables

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verification that the coverage criteria have been met
the reporting of test results in terms that are understandable to stakeholders.

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Test completion work products include

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test summary reports,
action items for improvement of subsequent projects or iterations,
change requests or product backlog items
finalized testware