QA

Requirements analysis

QA professionals are involved in the analysis and clarification of functional and non-functional software requirements and make sure the requirements are clear, consistent, complete, traceable, and testable

Test planning

Test plan ISO/IEC/IEEE 29119-3:2013 A test plan should contain a test strategy and cover a testing scope, a project budget and deadlines, the types and levels of testing an application requires, bug tracking and reporting procedures, resources and their responsibilities, and other factors.

Test design

QA specialists design test cases or checklists covering software requirements. Test cases outline conditions, test data (prepared at the test design stage as well), and test steps needed to validate particular functionality, and state an expected test result.

Test execution and defect reporting

Retesting and regression testing

Release testing

Smoke testing

References

A Practical Guide to the Software QA Process

QA process maturity: Models and capabilities