Test Completion Report

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The popular belief among the masses is that the testing phase completes once we finish the test execution across different test levels (Component Testing, Integration Testing, System Testing, and UAT Testing). However, testing is much more than merely moving from one test level to another. Following a defined process to close testing for a test level or overall testing takes place. Let’s go in detail on the process involved for test completion.

We will focus on the following points in this article:

• What Do You Understand by Test Completion Activities?
• What are the Test Completion Work Products?
• Test Completion Criteria for Test Levels

What Do You Understand by Test Completion Activities?

Test Completion is the last stage of the software testing life cycle. It results in a report that is a Test manager or a Test lead prepares that showcases the completed data from the test execution.

Let’s understand the key activities carried out in test closure.

• First is checking whether all reported defects reach a closure. The open ones should either be classified as a change request or get explicit approval from product owners that the software can go live with these open defects.
• Second is creating a test summary report & communicating it to stakeholders. It gives a high-level overview of all the testing performed and their results.
• Next comes finalizing and archiving the test environment, the test data, the test infrastructure, and other test ware for later reuse. It can include test data refresh so that other projects use this environment.
• After this, handing over the testware to the maintenance teams, other project teams, and stakeholders who could benefit from its use occurs. Once the project completes, handing over of testware like automation suite to maintenance teams happens so they can benefit from it.
• In addition to the above, analyzing lessons learned from the finished test activities to determine changes needed for future iterations, releases, and projects happens. The lessons learned could be a lack of test coverage, quality of test cases, or lack of unit test coverage.
• Moreover, using the information collected to improve test process maturity happens. It could be a test case review process with product owners. It additionally ensures that test coverage is increased based on UAT or production defect leakage.

What are the Test Completion Work Products?

Work products are the output of test activity. Now that we have learned about the different activities that execute in test completion. We will now review the work products that are the creation of these activities.

• Test summary reports: One of the critical outcomes of the Test Completion phase is the test summary report. This report is the summary of all the testing efforts which execute during the testing process. The summary report is a crucial input to the stakeholders to determine the amount of testing accomplished. In addition to that, it also analyzes the unattended risks and issues. It helps them to make informed decisions about the software (E.g., whether to take the software to production or not).
• Change Requests or Product Backlog Items: If there are defects that don’t fix in a release, they push to Product Backlog.
  In some cases, there are defects/functionalities which went undefined in requirements. Therefore, these require considering them as Change Requests.
• Action Items for the improvement of subsequent projects or iterations: One of the essential aspects of Test Completion activities is that it offers the opportunity to evaluate and record several lessons learned from the software testing process, as well as the software development life cycle (SDLC). From discussing best practices and effective methods for eliminating various ineffective processes, considering all these for future reference becomes imperative, so the next release should not repeat the same mistakes.
• Finalized testware: Finally, in this phase, finalization & archiving of all relevant test work products and documents, such as test records, test reports, test cases, test results, test plans take place.

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