When to start and Stop Testing?

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When to start and Stop Testing?..

Answer / sj1234

This is a General question asked in all the Interviews

You start testing once you are clear with the requirements
amd the documnets are ready

You stop testing depending on the following factors

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When to start and Stop Testing?..

Answer / sudhakar8

The following are the list of items that are required to be
Start the QA Phase.
.Complete Unit/ Integration Testing.
.QA Test Environment SetUp Completed.
.QA Test Plan Preparation Completed and approved.
.QA Test Cases Preparation Completed and approved.

The following are the list of items that are required to be
Stop the QA Phase.
. All Planned System Test cases have been executed.
. No Critical Bugs.
. Defect log should be updated.
. QA Test Summary Report Completed.
. QA Sign off.

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When to start and Stop Testing?..

Answer / sj1234

I am continuing The answer You stop testing when
stop testing these are the main factors.

1. Reduce in defects.
2. Increase in Testing cost.
3. Delivary dates.

We need to check that

1) Whether all the Bugs which were Assigned to developers
have been fixed .
2) All the documents pertaining to testing have been
prepared.
3) all the bugs which were in Previous releases have been
retested .

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When to start and Stop Testing?..

Answer / divya nandana.b

we will start testing when we have software requirement
specification, enough testcases, and build

we will stop testing
i)when all major seviority bugs are solved
ii)when budget is going to complete
iii)when project time s going to complete

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When to start and Stop Testing?..

Answer / meenakshi

when bug rate falls below a certian level
when deadlines are reached
when all the testcases are passed with a certian rate of
passed testcases
when testing budget is depleted
and teamleader says to stop testing
in all these cases we stop testing

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When to start and Stop Testing?..

Answer / vijayvardhan

Some of the common factors and constraints that should be considered when decided on when to stop testing are:
1. Testing budget of the project. Or when the cost of continued testing does not justify the project cost.
2. Resouces available and their skills.
3. Project deadline and test completion deadline.
4. Critical or Key Test cases successfully completed. Certain test cases even if they fail may not be show stoppers.
5. Functional coverage, code coverage, meeting the client requirements to certain point.
6. Defect rates fall below certain specified level & High priority bugs are resolved.
7. Project progresses from Alpha, to beta and so on.

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When to start and Stop Testing?..

Answer / nandini pai

Enter criteria to start testing:-
Build is released to testing team with all unit test case is executed and all defect got fixed which is identified during unit testing

Stop Testing(Exit criteria ):-All Business requirement is testing and all defect are fixed

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When to start and Stop Testing?..

Answer / prabha

When to start:

1)When build is ready
2)Environment is setup
3)Test cases are executed
4)Resource should be ready

when to stop:

1)Based on no. of test cases executed
2)No. of defect-reach certain low level
3)Based on release date

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When to start and Stop Testing?..

Answer / prince

why no hv mentioned abt the Test Plan -Exit Criteria.
while Test Plan is done we use to mention the Exit Criteria
Right,we shd Indentify that Exit Criteria also to Stop
Testing know?

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