Real Web Project Management: Case Studies and Best Practices from the Trenches

The Testing Process

Where the rubber hits the road is in QA. The standard testing procedure is described in this section.

Handoff

Generally the project is handed off to QA by the project manager once the technical development is complete. A handoff meeting is scheduled, where QA is fully briefed on the project before they start testing. Possible attendees to this meeting are the QA lead or testing engineer, the developer, the tech lead, the producer, and the stakeholder or client. During the handoff meeting, the project manager will present any outstanding issues of which QA should be aware, discuss how the scope of the project has grown or diminished, indicate expected outcomes or results of certain dynamic features, and most importantly, review ...