Introduction

This appendix contains guidance on ensuring that the re-use of tests and testing materials is achieved between testing phases and testing projects. It includes:

1. ▲ How and when to create a Re-use Pack

2. ▲ A list of the typical contents of a Re-use Pack

3. ▲ Guidance on using Re-use Packs.

Creating a Re-use Pack

At the end of any testing phase, the Test Team Leader (or Development Team Leader during Unit and Integration Testing) should collect copies of a number of items generated during the testing project into a single file (a simple manila folder is usually sufficient for this purpose). This file is termed a Re-use Pack.

The Re-use Pack will be archived with the rest of the project files and can be retrieved subsequently on request from the Testing Manager (or equivalent role).

The contents of the Re-use Pack can be used by other testing projects in order to reduce the effort and cost associated with testing and to improve the consistency and quality of testing.

Examples of the use of Re-use Packs include:

1. ▲ During subsequent testing phases of the same Application Under Test (AUT) (such as re-using some System tests during Acceptance Testing)

2. ▲ In Regression Testing modifications to the same AUT (such as either rerunning a complete System Test or selected elements of the System Test)

3. ▲ Where the AUT is similar or related to another AUT (such as employing existing integration test material when an additional module is added to an existing suite of applications).