Testing strategy is the planning of the whole testing process into a well-planned series of steps. In other words, strategy provides a roadmap that includes very specific activities that must be performed by the est team in order to achieve a specific goal.

The components of a testing strategy are discussed below:

Test Factors

Test factors are risk factors or issues related to the system under development. Risk factors need to be selected and ranked according to a specific system under development. The testing process should reduce these test factors to a prescribed level.

Test Phase

This is another component on which the testing strategy is based. It refers to the phases of SDLC where testing will be performed. Testing strategy may be different for different models of SDLC; for example, strategies will be different for waterfall and spiral models.