Test Strategy Pattern

1. Test Strategy Pattern Venkatesh D Rao Sr. Consultant

2. 1 Setting Context Technology DiversePattern Architecture Driven Pattern Process Based Pattern 2 3 Business Goal Based Pattern 4 5 Migration Based Pattern 6 Transition Based Pattern 7 8 Multi Rollout Based Pattern

3. Setting Context

4. Test Strategy Strategy: • Longer Term or Lager Scale Plan of Action • Specify Actions to address every Contingency • Ideally should be a well laid out complete plan which can be executed by anybody [Reference: Games of Strategy By Avinash Dixit, Susan, David] Deriving Test Strategy Patterns – Recurring High Level Requirements Why Patterns ? • Quick Reference to Solution

5. Test Strategy Components

6. Patterns

7. Pattern Documentation Name: A short descriptive pattern name Context: Description of the context; derived from the Example Problem: The underlying question Forces: Why it is a problem? Solution: The basic idea of the solution Consequences: Outcome of using the pattern Known Uses: Know applications of the pattern in practice Related Patterns: Relationship with other patterns

8. Name: Process Based Pattern Context: One of the US based insurance organization faced challenges in comparing and consistently measuring quality levels across Line Of Business (LOB) as each LOB followed different SDLCmodel. Problem: What is the Testing Strategy to address Quality Assurance (QA) requirements while migrating multiple programs to common baselined process?

9. Name: Technology Diverse Pattern Context: One of the US based Insurance Organization had developed applications using different technologies for Life Insurance and Non-Life Insurance. Problem: How to devise test strategy for disparate technology based solutions?

10. Name: Business Goal Based Pattern Context: A North American Insurance customer initiated a project to re-architect existing applications with the intent of achieving the marketing requirement to rollout the products across states in shortened time cycle. Problem: How to devise a test strategy to meet business driven goals and objectives wherein meeting ?

11. Name: Architecture Driven Pattern Context: An Australian Insurance customer looking for re-architecting existing platform to SOA based architecture Problem: How to define a Test Strategy to meet the demands of Enterprise wide Re-Architecting of platforms and applications?

12. Name: Migration Based Test Strategy Pattern Context: One of the American Insurance Organization defined a strategic roadmap to consolidate the existing platform on which solution is built and reduce the number of COTS product used for the existing solution Problem: What is the best test strategy to support strategic projects and non-strategic projects simultaneously?

13. Name: Transition Based Test Strategy Pattern Context: Europe based Insurance Organization having multiple development partners who are also performing testing of the solution which they own. This resulted in major quality related issues. Problem: How to ensure successful completion of transition in an effective manner & perform Independent Verification & Validation?

14. Name: Multi Rollout Based Pattern Context: One of the Insurance Organization which has presence across geographies such as Latin American Countries, Asia Pacific, Europe and North American regions plan to setup centralized QA function to support releases across geographies Problem: How to address multiple releases across the geographies?

15. Venkatesh D Rao Venkatesh.nag@wipro.com