Test Execution
JOSE FAJARDO, ELFRIEDE DUSTIN · 2012
This chapter defines test execution as the phase that follows the designing and development of the test strategies, test planning, test script documentation, and test procedures. Test execution is conducted after the test cases have been designed, documented, peer-reviewed, and approved, and the entrance criteria and/or test readiness review (TRR) have been evaluated. The construction of a test schedule prior to the start of the test execution is highly recommended to identify the sequence of dependencies in which the test cases need to be executed. A test schedule also helps to estimate the total time needed to execute all test cases associated with a testing effort and assign the test cases to the available resources for test execution. Given its integrated modules, SAP processes must be executed in a given sequence to account for dependencies. The scope and breadth of testing on software applications, where a software failure poses a risk to human life or where software failure is mission critical to an organization, are greater than for software applications that do not pose a high risk.