Life cycle Teting

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Life cycle testing involves continuous testing of the solution even after software plans are complete and the tested system is implemented. At several points during the development process, the test team should test the system in order to identify defects at the earliest possible
point.

Life cycle testing cannot occur until you formally develop your process. IT must provide and agree to a strict schedule for completing various phases of the process for proper life cycle testing to occur. If IT does not determine the order in which they deliver completed pieces of software, it’s impossible to schedule and conduct appropriate tests.

Life cycle testing is best accomplished by forming a test team. The team is composed of project members responsible for testing the system. They must use structured methodologies when testing; they should not use the same methodology for testing that they used for developing the system.

The effectiveness of the test team depends on developing the system under one methodology and testing it under another. The life cycle testing concept is illustrated in Figure.


It shows that when the project starts, both the development process and system test process also begin. Thus, the testing and implementation teams begin their work at the same time and with the same information.

The development team defines and documents the requirements for implementation purposes, and the test team uses those requirements for the purpose of testing the system. At appropriate points during the development process the test team runs the compliance process to uncover defects. The test team should use the structured testing techniques a basis of evaluating the corrections.

As you’re testing the implementation, prepare a series of tests that your IT department can run periodically after your revised system goes live. Testing does not stop once you’ve completely implemented your system; it must continue until you replace or update it again!

You can go through CONSTRAINTS IN SOFTWARE TESTING which gives best inputs for this concept.

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