- Obtain requirements, functional design, annd internal design specifications and other necessary documents

- Obtain budget and schedule requirements - Determine project-related personnel and thheir responsibilities, reporting requirements, required standards and processes (such as release processes, change processes, etc.)

- Identify application's higher-risk aspectss, set priorities, and determine scope and limitations of tests

- Determine test approaches and methods - unnit, integration, functional, system, load, usability tests, etc.

- Determine test environment requirements (hhardware, software, communications, etc.)

-Determine testware requirements (record/plaayback tools, coverage analyzers, test tracking, problem/bug tracking, etc.)

- Determine test input data requirements - Identify tasks, those responsible for taskks, and labor requirements

- Set schedule estimates, timelines, milestoones

- Determine input equivalence classes, bounddary value analyses, error classes

- Prepare test plan document and have neededd reviews/approvals

- Write test cases

- Have needed reviews/inspections/approvals of test cases

- Prepare test environment and testware, obttain needed user manuals/reference documents/configuration guides/installation guides, set up test tracking processes, set up logging and archiving processes, set up or obtain test input data

- Obtain and install software releases

- Perform tests

- Evaluate and report results

- Track problems/bugs and fixes

- Retest as needed

- Maintain and update test plans, test casess, test environment, and testware through life cycle