Software Testing Life Cycle (STLC)

Software testing life cycle identifies what testing activities to carry out and when to accomplish those test activities. Even though testing differs organization to organization, there is a testing life cycle.

Requirement Study : 

Testing Life cycle starts with the study of customer requirements.

Understanding of the customer requirements is very important for testing the Product.

Analysis and Planning :

Test Objective and Coverage

Overall Schedule

Resource required, including necessary training

Roles and responsibilities of the team members

Test Case Design and Development :

Component Identification 

Test Specification Design

Test Specification review

Test Case Execution :

Code review (few companies expect this to be done by the tester)

Test Case Execution and evaluation

Performance and Simulation

Test Closure :

Test Closure report

Project Documentation (User Manual)

Test Process Analysis :

Analysis done on the reports and improving the applications performance by implementing new technology and additional features