Introduction

If you prepared the testing reports without making the preliminary analysis of the findings before, please start doing it. The correctly prepared report on the results of testing is a powerful tool for the optimization of the software development process. That is why let’s pay special attention to this process.

This article includes practical recommendations concerning the preparation of different types of testing reports and their ready examples.

Contents

• Introduction
• What is the notion of report on the testing results?
• The outline of the report writing
• Types of testing reports
• For whom do we write reports?
• Example of the testing report
• Conclusion

Many corporations, companies, firms, and other institutions of different kinds of activity need to control access to their computer networks, devices that store information, and to the information itself. In future this problem can be solved by means of inventing new devices. These devices will let working only those people, whose voice, fingerprints or the retina picture match those in the database. However, because of comparatively high prices of these devices, applications, which limit the user access to devices and I/O ports, are used to protect the information. Such applications also let you protect the corporate computer networks from the influence of harmful viruses.

Applications limiting the user access to devices and ports are not only complicated in development but also require special treatment while testing.

This article will be useful for both testing specialists and newbies as soon as the process of GUI testing is represented here as completely as possible.

GUI testing can be performed from three points:

• Usability
• Design, appearance
• Element arrangement, layout.

The first two points are discussed well in the article by Elena Osadchaya “GUI Testing: Basic tips” [1]. Information concerning element arrangement testing can be found on the Microsoft site [2] and that is what we will talk about in this article.

Working with the software starts with its installation on the computer. During the installation, user gets the first impression of a product. That’s why this process is very important and claims certain attention.

This article includes practical recommendations on testing of software installation process and also includes a bulk of ready tests that are a good basis for a valid test plan preparation.