Benefits of Test Closure Activities
- Validates the delivery of deliverables: The test closure activities help to check whether the planned deliverables are properly delivered to the client or end users or not.
- Usability: The test closure activities ensures that the software product meets the requirement of the end-users
- Functional Correctness: The test closure activities ensure that all kinds of bugs and errors are documented in a report and resolved. It also helps to take care that these do not get repeated in the future.
- Positive Impact for future: The test closure activities examine the total figures achieved in the whole process of development and testing, which creates a positive impact for future references.
- Delivery of important artifacts: The test closure activities permit the manager of the testing team to pass important test cases and artifacts to the relevant person
- Evaluation of testing: The test closure activities help to evaluate the testing process. It also helps in the analysis of lessons learned for testing as well as development
Test Closure in Software Testing
Software testing is the process of evaluating and analyzing whether the software product is working as expected and doing what it is supposed to do. There are many benefits of performing the testing activity like improved software quality, reduced bugs, reduced development costs, etc. The end result of the testing process is Test Closure. The article focuses on discussing the test closure.
The following topics will be discussed here:
- What is Test Closure?
- Need for Test Closure
- Stages of Test Closure
- Test Closure activities
- When are Test Closure Activities Performed?
- Test Closure Report
- Benefits of Performing Test Closure Activities
Let’s start discussing each of these topics in detail.