QA Life Cycle

It is a integrated system of methodology activity involving like planning, implementation, assessment, reporting and quality improvement to ensure that the process is of the type and quality needed and expected by the client/customer.

1. Test requirements,
2. Test planning,
3. Test design,
4. Test execution and Defect logging,
6. Test reports and acceptance,
7. Sign off.

Test Requirements
1. Requirement Specification documents
2. Functional Specification documents
3. Design Specification documents (use cases, etc)
4. Use case Documents
5. Test Trace-ability Matrix for identifying Test Coverage

Test Planning
1. Test Scope, Test Environment
2. Different Test phase and Test Methodologies
3. Manual and Automation Testing
4. Defect Mgmt, Configuration Mgmt, Risk Mgmt. Etc
5. Evaluation & identification? Test, Defect tracking tools

Test Design
1. Test Traceability Matrix and Test coverage
2. Test Scenarios Identification & Test Case preparation
3. Test data and Test scripts preparation
4. Test case reviews and Approval
5. Base lining under Configuration Management

Test Execution and Defect Tracking
1. Executing Test cases
2. Testing Test Scripts
3. Capture, review and analyze Test Results
4. Raised the defects and tracking for its closure

Test Reports and Acceptance
1. Test summary reports
2. Test Metrics and process Improvements made
3. Build release
4. Receiving acceptance

Signoff
Signoff template provides a checklist format for customer that can be used for reviewing a new system's functionality and other attributes before closing a purchase order or accepting a delivery. It includes checklist areas for functional tests, documentation reviews, issue recording, enhancement requests.

This form can be used standalone for this purpose, or it can be used as the short-form checklist and signoff form accompanying a written User Acceptance Test Plan or Beta Test Plan (see our templates for those 2 documents).

NOTE: This form can also be adapted for review and acceptance of any deliverable between a customer and a provider. Whether the deliverable is a recommendations report from consultants, a user manual from a technical publications firm, a physical hardware system, a software application, a plan for a marketing campaign, etc., this form can be used to list what's expected by the customer, record results of the acceptance review or tests, record open issues to be corrected, and ultimately document acceptance by the customer.

How to use?
When preparing to accept a deliverable—system, product, report, etc.—from a supplier, fill out your version of this form to include the items you want to test and/or review. If possible, consider ahead of time whether any discrepancies will be acceptable for each item. Schedule the review/tests with the supplier and discuss expectations. When you perform the reviews or tests, mark the performance of each item and indicate whether each result is acceptable—will the deliverable be accepted with this issue? Finally, review overall results with supplier, timeline for issue resolution, and whether re-test will be required.