PROJECT MANAGEMENT: 5 Tips for Better Quality Testing

Here are 5 strategies to ensure that your testing phase is well-planned, kept, and protected like Fort Knox!

1. Cover All Your Requirements

It may seem obvious, but make sure that your test plans encompass all of your project’s products and deliverables. If you are not going to put some aspects of the project through quality testing, make sure that this is explicitly stated and that the reasons are documented (and that everyone agrees).

It’s important not to take omitting some portions of the project from testing carelessly. Determine whether aspects of the project can be completed with automated testing tools and which test suite you will employ. If you leave requirements out of quality testing, you won’t end up with a stable product. The overall quality will degrade, and some components of your system may cease to function entirely.

2. Prepare Your Documents Early

Do not wait until the project’s testing phase to write the test scripts or use cases. Bring them together as soon as you can, ideally while you’re writing the requirements or designing the system.

The exam plans and other files can be uploaded to your online document storage files. Members of the project team can access them while working on the product to help them think about how it will be used and, as a result, how it should be produced. It also saves you time and allows you to get right to work when testing begins.

3. Involve Your Testers Early

As studied in the PMP, CAPM, and PfMP Certification course, you need to determine who will do project testing using your project resource planning. Then, as soon as possible, include them in the project.

The testers can assist you in creating test scripts as well as other paperwork such as a test strategy. More crucially, if you don’t have a user representative permanently seconded to the project, they can help define how development is done and represent users on the project team. The more information they have about the project and what problems the system should solve for users, the better they will be able to comprehend the testing requirements.

4. Prepare for Bugs

Go into testing with the goal of achieving a high-quality result. That means putting the system to the ultimate test! Prepare your users with the possibility of finding faults, and explain why this is a positive thing. (Remember how long Google’s Gmail was in “beta”?)

It might be discouraging to discover mistakes. However, it is unrealistic to believe that there will be none. That is why you test — to find and fix any issues before the system goes live. Managing the team’s mindset before to testing ensures that morale does not suffer when they begin logging pages of errors.

5. Break it Down

Reduce your products to the smallest possible unit. This allows for extremely fine-grained testing. It’s a thorough and reliable technique to ensure that every aspect of your project is up to pace.

When testing at a high level, it’s not always easy to detect problems. You’ll cover everything in a logical and organized manner by breaking it down, assuring the highest quality.

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