Test Management – Chapter 5 – ISTQB Foundation

The fifth part of the series of summaries is to help you with the ISTQB exam certification. This will help you memorize what is going to be likely to be on the exam questions. Every little piece of information helps with the exam for the ISTQB certification foundation level I hope you make the most of this series.

Read, then practice the exam for chapter 5 – Test Management, link at the end of this summary, practice the quiz as much as you like or until you feel comfortable enough to go to the next chapter.

If you feel that you are ok to try the actual exam, there’s a quiz for that as well next to chapter five.

The more you read, the more you understand, and the more you understand more you are ready to sit for the exam.

I have uploaded a mind map with a graphical visualization of the ISTQB Foundation Level topics, a kind of Cheat Cheat, you may find it useful too to help you with the exam.

Hope you like it. Feel free to drop me a comment, or inform anything that I’ve missed here. Good luck.

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Risk

A factor that could result in future negative consequences.

Level of risk

Probability of risk occurring x impact if it did happen.

Project risks

Supplier issues, skill or staff shortage, personal issues, requirement issues, test environments not ready, low quality of design, code, and tests.

Product risks

Failure-prone software delivered, the potential for a defect to cause harm, poor software characteristics, and software that doesn’t do what it is supposed to.

Risk-based testing

Proactively reduces the risk by identifying them and mitigating them as soon as possible.

Risk-based approach

• Determines test techniques and the extent of testing needed.
• Prioritize testing in an attempt to find critical defects as early as possible.
• Determines non-testing techniques that could reduce risk.

Test leader tasks

• Coordinating the development of the test strategy and plan with project managers.
• Writing or reviewing test strategies.
• Contributing testing perspective to other project activities.
• Planning the development of the required tests.
• Taking required action on issues.
• Scheduling testing activities.

Tester tasks

• Reviewing and contributing to the development of test plans.
• Analyzing, reviewing, and assessing user requirements.
• Creating test specifications.
• Setting up the test environment.
• Implementing tests.
• Monitoring and reviewing tests.

Test approach

All of the decisions made on how testing should be implemented are based on project goals and risk assessment.

Factors for selecting a test approach

• Risk of failure of the project.
• Skills and experience of the people in the proposed techniques, tools, and methods.
• Object and mission of the testing team.
• Regulatory aspects.
• Nature of the product and business.

Master test plan

The main document produced in testing details each of the other test plans.

IEEE 829

The standard for Software Test Documentation.

16 sections of IEEE 829

S – scope
P – people
A – approach
C – criteria
E – environment needs
D – deliverable (test)
I – identifier and introduction
R – risks and contingencies
T – testing tasks and schedule

Test planning activities

• Working with the project manager and SMEs to determine the scope and risks.
• Putting together the test strategy.
• Liaising with the project.
• Working with the project to decide what needs to be tested.
• Building a plan that identifies when and who will do the test analysis and design.
• Finding and assigning resources.
• Deciding what docs will be needed.
• Ensuring test documentation generates repeatable test assets.

Entry criteria

Determines when a test activity can start.

Exit criteria

Determines when a given test activity has been completed or when it should stop.

Two approaches to test estimation

Metrics-based approach and expert-based approach.

Metrics-based approach test estimation

Estimates the cost and time of a project based on metrics from previous or similar projects.

Expert-based approach test estimation

Estimates the cost and time of a project based on the experiences of the task owners.

Common metrics to measure test progress

• Percentage of work done in test case prep.
• Percentage of work done in test environment preparation.
• A number of tests run/not run.
• Test coverage.
• Dates of milestones.

Test control

The activity of using information from test reporting to decide on a course of action to ensure control of the test activities is maintained and exit criteria are met.

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