What Information Must Error Report and Test Report Provide?
Nowadays any web site testing, desktop testing or mobile testing is a complex multilevel process. Each test type includes a lot of test cases. Testing process can be finished when all the tests pass successfully and all the features of the tested application correspond to the specification.
Each error found in course of mobile application testing, desktop testing or web site testingmust be documented and reported.
Every Bug Report Contains Such Items:
- title;
- short, informative description of the defect;
- steps to reproduce the error;
- part of the software where the issue happens;
- reproducibility of the software bug, notification if it can always be reproduced or once in several tries.
It is necessary to think out carefully each point of an error report before logging in the error. A software testing company often reminds its testers to make sure that the defect can be reproduced and all the significant conditions of environment are considered.
Test report must be written at the end of a testing process.
Test Report Must Provide Such Data:
- name and version of the tested software product;
- full name and model of the device utilized for the testing activities;
- names and versions of the operation systems, browsers and other elements of the environment.
Source : QATestlab
