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These criteria are used to determine in advance 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 test item (for example, a software 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.
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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 Deliverables
This section describes what is produced by the testing process. These deliverables my be the subject of quality assessment before their final approval or acceptance, and besides all the elements of test documentation that are described here, may also include test data used during testing, test scripts, code for execution of tests in testing frameworks and outputs from test tools.
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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