Software testing life cycle

Test Requirements 

- Requirement Specification documents

- Functional Specification documents 

- Design Specification documents (use cases, etc) 

- Use case Documents 

- Test Trace-ability Matrix for identifying Test Coverage

Test Planning

- Test Scope, Test Environment

- Different Test phase and Test Methodologies

- Manual and Automation Testing

- Defect Mgmt, Configuration Mgmt, Risk Mgmt. Etc

- Evaluation & identification - Test, Defect tracking tools

Test Environment Setup

- Test Bed installation and configuration

- Network connectivity-s

- All the Software/ tools Installation and configuration

- Coordination with Vendors and others

Test Design

- Test Traceability Matrix and Test coverage

- Test Scenarios Identification & Test Case preparation

- Test data and Test scripts preparation

- Test case reviews and Approval

- Base lining under Configuration Management

Test Automation

- Automation requirement identification

- Tool Evaluation and Identification.

- Designing or identifying Framework and scripting

- Script Integration, Review, and Approval

- Base lining under Configuration Management

Test Execution and Defect Tracking

- Executing Test cases

- Testing Test Scripts

- Capture, review, and analyze Test Results

- Raised the defects and tracking for its closure

Test Reports and Acceptance

- Test summary reports

- Test Metrics and process Improvements made

- Build release

- Receiving acceptance