Testing strategy - notes
Key elements Types of testing Unit Integration System End-to-end (e2e) User Acceptance Testing (UAT) Non-functional - testing for objectives like performance of the system (speed, capacity), security, accessibility What gets testing / timeline Critical processes / critical flows, eg. authenticating, that transactions work as expected Prioritise high-risk or high-importance features early, allow time to fix defects Ownership of testing Developers - unit & integration tests QA teams - end to end & non-functional tests Business - UAT Tools Frameworks JUnit Cypress Automated testing with Postman CI/CD GitHub Actions Jenkins Azure DevOps Results dashboards & alerts Environments Dev, Test, Staging, Pre-Prod, Prod Test data strategy Quality Gates Release only if/when tests pass (agree coverage %, what is critical path) Risk-based testing: focus effort Metrics & Governance testing coverage defect leakage test pass rate regression testing (Youtube) Align with SDLC & audit/compliance needs