Evaluating Testing Strategy

SeaLights is your personal testing laboratory. This use case empowers you to transform from a passive QA engineer to an active analyst, leveraging data-driven insights to continuously evaluate and refine your testing strategy. By monitoring code coverage, defect trends, and test execution effectiveness, you'll ensure your testing efforts remain impactful, efficient, and targeted to the areas that matter most.

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Step-by-Step Tutorial

1. Track Coverage & Effectiveness

• Utilize SeaLights' Coverage Trend report to visualize code coverage over time.

• Monitor the impact of different test types (unit, integration, etc.) on code coverage.

• Compare escaping defect trends to coverage progress, by adding production defects to your coverage trend report.

2. Deep-Dive into Insights

• Investigate apps with low coverage or high defect rates, using the Test Gaps Analysis, to understand the potential risks and impact.

• Evaluate the efficiency of existing tests, identifying repetitive or redundant efforts.

• Consider the evolving application functionality and prioritize coverage based on new features and code changes.

3. Adapt & Optimize

• Adjust your testing strategy based on your findings, potentially allocating more resources to critical areas.

• Introduce new test types or techniques to address uncovered areas or improve defect detection.

• Utilize data to justify changes and communicate the impact of your optimization efforts to stakeholders.

4. Continuously Monitor & Iterate

• Integrate data-driven evaluation into your regular testing process, not just a one-time activity.

• Encourage a culture of experimentation and data-driven decision-making within your testing team.

5. Share & Learn

• Share your evaluation results and insights with developers and other stakeholders to foster transparency and collaborative improvement.

• Learn from past successes and challenges, continuously refining your testing approach for increased efficiency and effectiveness.

By actively monitoring, analyzing, and adapting your testing strategy with SeaLights, you'll transform your testing from a static process into a dynamic and responsive system.