SDLC

Question 1

What are the phases of the SDLC?

Answer 1

• Planning
• Analysis
• Design
• Implementation/ Development
• Testing
• Release and maintenance

Question 2

Explain the Planning phase

Answer 2

Project goals, requirements, timelines, and resources are defined

Product team plans out what product features need to be created or updated based on:
- Customer needs
- Customer requests
- Market and competitors

Product teams comes up with rough goal of what they actually want to get from the application

Question 3

Explain the Analysis phase

Answer 3

Requirements are gathered, documented, and analyzed to understand the needs of users

• Product Owners analyze goals and create requirements for every piece of the application
• Engineering team analyzes those rough goals and splits them into:
• Documented requirements
• Technical and functional tasks for devs to implement

Question 4

Explain the Design phase

Answer 4

• Design team comes up with a design for the product and every aspect of the application
• They also create tasks for devs to implement the design

Question 5

Explain the Implementation/ Development phase

Answer 5

Devs code and create the product based on the requirements. They can create new features, or update existing features

Question 6

Explain the Testing phase

Answer 6

Code is tested to validate the software
- QA team verifies all the tasks have been successfully implemented, if not then file bug reports and have devs fix them
- “We loop through the tickets, run regression testing, file all the bugs and ask devs to fix the most critical ones depending on the timeline

Question 7

Explain the Release/ Maintenance phase

Answer 7

• Application or features are going out to production and customers will be able to see it and use it
• It is important to regularly maintain and upgrade the system so that it can adapt to future needs

Question 8

Where does QA fit into SDLC?

Answer 8

“Ideally as soon as possible”
- We are active during the testing phase, but we are still present in other phases as well
- Analysis - we look at the rough goals as an engineering team
- Design - QA can give their perspectives on what possible bugs a certain design can have
- Release - we need to make sure every step of the release goes smooth

Question 9

What should your QA documentation include?

Answer 9

• bug reports
• test cases
• configurations
• a list of defects with severity levels
• test metrics

Question 10

What should your software QA documentation include?

Answer 10

• code changes
• bug reports
• test cases
• test plans
• specifications