Test Report
Test Report Definition
By ISTQB glossary the definition of a test report is a document summarizing testing activities and results. It also contains an evaluation of the corresponding test items against exit criteria.
Why Do We Need A Test Report?
The typical benefits of a test report include:
How to make a good Test Report?
What does a test report contain?
Project Information
All information of the project such as the project name, product name, and version should be described in the test report. For example, the information of Guru99Bank project will be as follows
Test Objective
As mentioned in Test Planning tutorial, Test Report should include the objective of each round of testing, such as Unit Test, Performance Test, System Test …Etc.
Test Summary
This section includes the summary of testing activity in general. Information detailed here includes
- The number of test cases executed
- The numbers of test cases pass
- The numbers of test cases fail
- Pass percentage
- Fail percentage
- Comments
This information should be displayed visually by using color indicator, graph, and highlighted table.
Defect
One of the most important information in Test Report is defect. The report should contain following information
- Total number of bugs
- Status of bugs (open, closed, responding)
- Number of bugs open, resolved, closed
- Breakdown by severity and priority
Like test summary, you can include some simple metrics like Defect density, % of fixed defects.
The project team sent you the Defect information as following
- Defect density is 20 defects/1000 lines of code average
- 90% defects fixed in total
- The detail of the bugs
You can represent the data as following graph
Tips to write a good test report
A good Test Report should be:
- Detail: You should provide a detailed description of the testing activity, show which testing you have performed. Do not put the abstract information into the report, because the reader will not understand what you said.
- Clear: All information in the test report should be short and clearly understandable.
- Standard: The Test Report should follow the standard template. It is easy for stakeholder to review and ensure the consistency between test reports in many projects.
- Specific: Do not write an essay about the project activity. Describe and summarize the test result specification and focus on the main point.
Test Report Example
