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If the testing runs out of time or resources before the completion or is aborted by stakeholders or the evaluation team, the conclusions about the quality of the system may be rather limited, and this may be an indication of the quality of the testing itself.
Suspension Criteria and Resumption Requirements
These criteria are used to determine whether the testing should be prematurely suspended or ended before the plan has been completely executed, and when the testing can be resumed or started, that is, when the problems that caused the suspension have been resolved.
The reason for the suspension can be the failure of the build that is the subject of the test to work properly due to critical defects which seriously prevent or limit testing progress, accumulation of non-critical defect to the point where the continuation of testing has no value, client’s changes of the requirements, system or environment downtime, inability to provide some critical component or resource at the time indicated in the project schedule.
It is may be required to perform a smoke test before the full resumption of the tests.
Issues noticed during testing are often consequence of other previously noticed defects, so continuation of testing after certain is number of identified defects in the affected functionality or item is wasting of resources, particularly if it is obvious that the system or the item cannot satisfy the pass criteria.
Test Environment or Test Bed is an execution environment configured for testing. It may consist of specific hardware, OS, network topology, configuration of the product under test, other application or system software, test tools, etc. The Test Plan for a project should enumerated the test beds(s) to be used.
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