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Project Management Methodology

The different phases are

Initiation/Setup

• Testing Strategy
  
   
  • Automation Feasibility
  • Manual & Automated components
  • Tool selection for automation
    
     
• Testing Requirements & Sign off
  
   
  • Unit Testing requirement
  • Business Functional Requirements
  • All interfaces
  • Application security levels
  • List of platforms for compatibility
  • Critical transactions for performance testing
  • Performance goals
  • Globalization needs
    
     
• Effort estimates and price signoff
• Scheduling sign off
• Project Plan
• Project communication
• Workflow between Development & TS Testing teams
• Developer � Tester interaction process for UT (if required)

Knowledge Transfer & Test Plan

•   Application Demo
•   Domain Training
•   Shadow transfer
•   Study of user and operations manuals
•   Globalization rules
•   Test plan and Test cases

Environment Set up

•   Hardware and Software resource set up
•   Ghost image plan
•   Test bed creation
•   Special requirements for globalization testing

 Automation

• Architecture
• Automation Test Flow
• Identify reusable elements
• Create and test scripts
• In-line auto test setup

 Performance Test

•   Critical transactions
•   Scripting
•   Environment setup
•   Iterative test run
•   Analysis

 Execution

•   Execute test scripts or cases
•   Log, track and report defects
•   Improve and increase automation
•   Monitor, analyze and feedback until Q levels achieved

 Warranty preparation & support

•   Allocate technical team to support warranty levels
•   Optionally agree to a per/bug payment if errors are above
    Warranty levels
•   Integrate warranty support team into maintenance team
•   Live monitoring
•   Warranty bug fixing

 Continuous Improvement

• Increase automation levels
• Improve test scripts and cases

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