Software Testing Documentation Artifacts

Software Testing Documentation Artifacts

Documenting the test cases will facilitate you to estimate the testing effort you will need along with test coverage and tracking and tracing requirement. Some commonly applied documentation artifacts associated with software testing are:

1. Test Plan
2. Test Scenario
3. Test Case
4. Traceability Matrix(RTM)

Let’s discuss each of them in brief.

1. Test Plan: It provides you with the outline strategy which will be implemented for testing the application.
2. Test Scenario: Test scenario can be considered as a single line statement that notifies the area in which your application will be experimented. This artifact is needed for ensuring the overall procedure tested from the very start to end.
3. Test Case: Test Case is nothing but a set of steps or conditions or variables under which a tester will determine whether a system under test satisfies requirements or works correctly.   Below mentioned test cases are being checked during testing.
   • Functional test cases
   • Negative-error test cases
   • UI test cases
4. Traceability Matrix: It is also known as a Requirement Traceability Matrix (RTM). It contains a table which sketches the requirements when your product’s SDLC model is being created. These documenting artifacts can be applied for forward tracing which is to go from designing to coding or can be implemented for backward tracing as well which is the reverse of the forward tracing.

This brings us to end of Software Testing Documentation Artifacts.