What is Application entry and exit criteria

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What is Application entry and exit criteria..

Answer / neena

ENTRY CRITERIA : Before moving from planning phase to
execution phase of our Testing life cycle, we should make
sure it meet certain entrance criteria.
Following are the checklist or process before you offically
moving in execution phase:
1. Test cases completed
2. Test Data available
3. Testing Environment is setup
4. Resources are identify
5. Bussiness requirement, Functional Requirement, Use case
document, RTM are available( which are signed off by all
the stake holder)

Manager has to sign it.

EXIT CRITERIA: Before moving from excution phase to
Analysis phase we should make sure that it meets certain
Exit criteria.
Following are the checklist before we offically enter in
analysis:
1. All Test Cases Executed
2. All Defects report and Retested
3. Test documents are updated with results
4. All reports are generated:
* Execution report
* Defect Report

Manager has to sign off

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What is Application entry and exit criteria..

Answer / sathyanarayanan

please any one tell me answer

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What is Application entry and exit criteria..

Answer / dinesh

Neena is almost correct but few more major things need to
be ensures before Entry and Exit criterias.

Entry criteria should meet the following;
1)Unit testing and DIT(Developer Integration testing)
should be completed by development team and all the unit
and DIT test cases should have passed and the Unit test
report to be shared to testing team.
2)Test Turnover document should be shared by development
team.
3)SIT(System/software integration Testing)Test cases are
completed and the same is reviewed by all the stake holders
and approved.
4)All the issues that has been raised during the Unit and
DIT testing are reported in Bug trackin tool and are
addressed.
5)Application should pass, smoke and sanity testing.
6)before every consecutive loops after loop1(i.e loop2,
loop3... etc)impact analysis document should be shared by
the development team to testing team, to identify the error
prone areas after the fix is done for a bug(it helps
testing team to do regression)
6)All the above said documents and the application should
be checked-in in CFM tool.

Exit Criteria:

1)All the issues are tracked in defect tracking tool.
2)All significant defects are closed. If any exists, should
be acceptable.
3)All the test cases are executed.
4)Test artifacts updated to include test results, and put
under configuration management.
5)Voice of the tester.