Effective Test Reporting- Execution Report
Hello Friends!
While working on the testing assignments we learn to have the significant reporting visibility and mechanism to express the testing efforts and business values delivered through testing.
I thought of sharing what I have learnt in the reporting and what are the key areas which we should look in to while reporting. This would be series of posts which will include the following five reports:
- Execution Report
- Defect Report
- Requirement traceability matrix
- Causal Analysis Report
- Quality of release report
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Let’s start with the first report in the series “execution Report”
As most of us have to deal with this report on very regular basis correct understanding of the necessity of this report helps you in putting the right content and best status to your superiors:
1. Summary of the report at a glance to understand it easily
This helps in getting the brief idea of the execution which has been accomplished and yet to be worked upon. Use of graphs and pie charts helps a lot in this and also gives professional look to your report.
2. Release details
Relevant release details of the product / application helps in back-tracking the progress
3. Categorization of work completion
This is required to understand how many test cases are executed, not executed and blocked thus to decide the action plan accordingly
4. Time-wise distribution of execution activities
This helps lead in getting the idea of daily accomplishment and anticipated time to cover the release.
5. Owner-wise distribution of execution activities
Although this is not mission critical details, but if the modules or functionalities are divided amongst the team members this helps in getting the correct information about who is executing what.
6. Highlighting Failed cases
Highlighting the failed cases are necessary to guide the development team where to target, and also the defect understanding.
I hope this helps
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