Best Practices for the Formal Software Testing Process: A Menu of Testing Tasks

Chapter 7. Update Test Documentation: Levels 2 and 3 IPO Diagrams

7.1. Overview

In Chapter 2, we reviewed the five Level 1 IPO diagrams for the formal testing process:

1. Extract Test Information From Program Plans, process 1.1

2. Create Test Plan, process 1.2

3. Create Test Design, Test Cases, Test Software, And Test Procedures, process 1.3

4. Perform Formal Test, process 1.4

5. Update Test Documentation, process 1.5

In this chapter, I expand the detail of the Level 1 IPO diagram for process 1.5, Update Test Documentation. As shown in the Level 2 IPO diagram, there are three subprocesses included within the Update Test Documentation process:

1. Analyze Test Documentation Problems

2. Update Test Documents

3. Review And Approve Software Test ...