Prioritizing test cases involves evaluating their importance based on factors such as business impact, risk, and critical functionality. Here’s a step-by-step approach:
- Understand Requirements and Business Impact: Focus on test cases related to high-priority business features and critical user workflows that significantly affect the application’s functionality.
- Assess Risks and Complexity: Prioritize test cases that cover areas prone to defects, complex integrations, or newly implemented features.
- Identify Critical Paths: Highlight test cases for functionalities that are core to the application’s operations and directly impact user experience.
- Use the RICE or MoSCoW Method:
- RICE (Reach, Impact, Confidence, Effort): Score test cases based on their potential reach, impact on functionality, confidence level, and estimated effort.
- MoSCoW (Must-Have, Should-Have, Could-Have, Won’t-Have): Categorize test cases accordingly.
- Incorporate Risk-Based Testing: Allocate more time to test cases with high failure probability or high business risk.
- Consider Execution Time and Resources: Prioritize faster, automated tests when time is constrained and defer low-risk, manual tests to later phases.
- Stakeholder Input: Collaborate with stakeholders to validate the prioritization based on their understanding of business needs and goals.
How to prioritize test cases with QA Touch?
To prioritize test cases in QA Touch, you can use custom fields to assign priority levels (such as High, Medium, or Low), categorize test cases based on business impact or risk, and then sort or filter test cases by priority within the test case management module.
