Under QA InfoTech’s Professional Development Program (PDP) that aims to upskill and reskill its software testing workforce the next training session recently conducted was on the aspects of test planning and test estimation.
Mayank Upadhyay, Sr. Manager from the Quality Engineering Team, along with Varun Chauhan, Manager, Quality Engineering conducted the session for QA InfoTech’s test engineers.
Mayank Upadhyay, Sr. Manager from the Quality Engineering Team, along with Varun Chauhan, Manager, Quality Engineering conducted the session for QA InfoTech’s test engineers.
A Brief About This Session
A recent study in the United States mentioned that nearly half of all enterprise software implementations do not meet their targets and business objectives. This common problem affects many factors like CRM, project cost, Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP), resulting in a delay to reach the desired outcome within a stipulated time, ultimately costing the client either revenue share or market captivity.
Test planning is the most important activity that test managers and test leaders take on. As the name suggests planning is the first step to reaching the desired goal, soon followed by estimation. Test planning is based on several factors including guidelines and requirements of the client, risk factors, constraints, urgency of delivery, organizational policies and more. Test planning is a continuous activity as it is also altered with the periodic feedback received during the testing process.
Test estimation is the next step to planning as it approximates how long the task takes to complete, how much manpower and technology is required and at what price. The estimated cost considering resources, time, human skill, technology input, cost all are considered for a project estimate. While small organizations managing small projects use ad-hoc methods, large scale projects require deeper understanding and estimation techniques.
A test plan is a medium of communication between the stakeholder and the delivery team, a platform to catalogue all actions taken for the release. It acts as a roadmap to the process and records all the related details and also enables managers to accurately estimate, control and track the progress of a particular project.
In this training session, Mayank spoke about the stages and steps to test planning, techniques and tools of test estimation and various approaches along with the importance of both, for all kinds of projects. The trainers also mentioned specific cases where test planning and test estimation went wrong and the learnings from the same along with other best practices and success stories.
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