Task: Create The Testability Review Report (AST)
Purpose

The testability review report:

  • provides feedback on the quality of the test basis and its impact on the planned test programme
  • discusses the weak spots in the system design timely
  • obtains information on project risks
Relationships
RolesPrimary: Additional: Assisting:
Outputs
Main Description

Method of operation

A testability review report is created based on the individual test basis defects. This report supplies a general summary in respect of the quality, or testability, of the test basis. Any consequences of inadequate quality should also be described. Discrepancies in respect of the summarised information in the test plan of which the test basis consists and the agreed test strategy are also described. This can give rise to adjustment to the plan in connection with, for example, the strategy to be followed and the test techniques to be employed.

The testability review report could consist of, for example, the following sections:

  • Formulation of the assignment - An identification of the original (or, if necessary, amended) test basis and a description of the client and the contractor.
  • Conclusion - The final conclusion in respect of the testability of the examined test basis and any related consequences or risks: is the test basis of sufficient quality to justify starting on specifying tests as established in the (amended) test strategy?
  • Recommendations - Recommendations in respect of the assessed test basis and any structural recommendations with an eye to producing a better test basis in the future.
  • Defects - The defects found are described in detail or reference is made to the associated defects forms.
  • Appendices - The checklists used.

Products

Testability review report.