Managing Test Activities.
Chapter 5 covers how testing is planned, estimated, prioritized, monitored, controlled, completed, configured, and connected to risk and defect management.
Test management overview
This chapter explains the management side of testing. It includes planning, tester contributions to iteration and release planning, entry criteria, exit criteria, estimation, prioritization, risk, monitoring, control, completion, configuration management, and defect management.
Planning and prioritization
- Test planning and tester contribution to iteration and release planning
- Entry criteria and exit criteria
- Estimation techniques and factors that affect estimates
- Test case prioritization
- Test pyramid and testing quadrants
Risk, monitoring, and defects
- Product risks and project risks
- Risk analysis and risk control in testing
- Test monitoring, test control, and test completion
- Configuration management for testware
- Defect management and defect reports