Systems & Software Talk 

Testing Life-Cycle Depiction

This depiction attempts to provide the reader with a perspective of testing types and categories, with their approximate relationships to generic project timelines, and - with each other. The durations as represented by the box/bar lengths are for example purposes only. Actual definitions, durations, types, and categories will vary by organization. Since Performance Engineering and Performance Testing are of greatly increasing interest to many organizations, they are intentionally broken out of the other boxes - where one would ordinarily hope to find them addressed.

The MS-Word source is located under this link.

This or your own variation is a good addition to any master test planning document as it:

1. Provides a high-level testing framework
2. Represents general program/project testing requirements
3. Promotes a common terminology frame-of-reference, and
4. Is therefore is a basis for setting general expectations.

Can you determine which development life-cycle methodology this is derived from?