Practical tips for success

A few practical tips that can benefit you during your testing activities are the following:

• Do not skip the test strategy. Make a checklist for the test strategy.
• Where possible, use automated tools, especially for SIT and regression tests. Regression tests must be run multiple times whenever an issue is fixed.
• UAT should be done by business users who are SMEs in their area. Following prior documented test scripts is very ineffective. In addition to test scripts, business users should run through ad hoc real-life scenarios. If there are any issues, this is our last opportunity to find and fix them.
• The QA team or SIT team should be made up of independent team members with good system knowledge with some level of business domain knowledge. The technical team members who developed the application should be the last people to do SIT.
• Team members should take static testing seriously. A review of the static artifacts by SMEs and leads...