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Australian Standard ®

Software test documentation

AS 4006—1992
ANSI/IEEE Std 829 — 1983
 This Australian Standard was prepared by Committee IT/15, Software Engineering.
It was approved on behalf of the Council of Standards Australia on 27 January 1992
and published on 16 April 1992.

The following interests are represented on Committee IT/15:

Australian Bankers Association
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Australian Computer Society

Australian Computer Society National Software Industry Committee
Australian Information Industry Association
Australian Software Metrics Association
Computer Assisted Software Engineering Society
Department of Defence
Griffith University
Institute of Quality Assurance
Software Quality Association, Qld
Software Verification Research Centre
Telecom Australia
University of New South Wales

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Australian Standard ®
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Software test documentation

First published as AS 4006—1992.

PUBLISHED BY STANDARDS AUSTRALIA

(STANDARDS ASSOCIATION OF AUSTRALIA)
1 THE CRESCENT, HOMEBUSH, NSW 2140
ISBN 0 7262 7357 0
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PREFACE

This Standard was prepared by the Standards Australia Committee on Software Engineering. It is
identical with and has been reproduced from ANSI/IEEE Std 829, IEEE Standard for Software Test
Documentation.
Under arrangements made between Standards Australia and the international Standards bodies, ISO
and IEC, as well as certain other Standards organizations, users of this Australian Standard are
advised of the following:
Copyright of the content of this Standard remains the property of IEEE. The copyright of this
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CONTENTS
SECTION PAGE

Documentation Standard
1. Scope . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4
2. Definitions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4

Basic Documents
3. Test Plan . . . . . . . . . . . . . .. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5
4. Test-Design Specification . . .. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7
5. Test-Case Specification . . . .. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7
6. Test-Procedure Specification .. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8
7. Test-Item Transmittal Report . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9
8. Test Log . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9
9. Test-Incident Report . . . . . . .. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10
10. Test-Summary Report . . . . . .. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10
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APPENDIXES
Appendix A Examples . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12
Appendix B Implementation and Usage Guidelines . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 39
Appendix D Annotated Bibliography . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 40
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STANDARDS AUSTRALIA
Australian Standard
Software test documentation
1. Scope
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This standard describes a set of basic test
documents which are associated with the
dynamic aspects of software testing (that is, the
execution of procedures and code). The standard
defines the purpose, outline, and content of each
basic document. While the documents described
in the standard focus on dynamic testing, several
of them may be applicable to other testing
activities (for example, the test plan and test
incident report may be used for design and code
reviews).
The standard may be applied to commercial,
scientific, or military software which runs on
any digital computer. Applicability is not
restricted by the size, complexity, or criticality
of the software. However, the standard does not
specify any class of software to which it must be
applied. The standard addresses the
documentation of both initial development
testing and the testing of subsequent software
releases. For a particular software release, it may
be applied to all phases of testing from module
testing through user acceptance. However, since
all of the basic test documents may not be useful
in each test phase, the particular documents to
be used in a phase are not specified. Each
organization using the standard will need to
specify the classes of software to which it
applies and the specific documents required for a
particular test phase.
The standard does not call for specific testing
methodologies, approaches, techniques, facilities,
or tools, and does not specify the documentation
of their use. Additional test documentation may
be required (for example, code inspection
checklists and reports). The standard also does
not imply or impose specific methodologies for
documentation control, configuration
management, or quality assurance. Additional
documentation (for example, a quality assurance
plan) may be needed depending on the particular
methodologies used.
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Within each standard document, the content of
each section (that is, the text which covers the
designated topics) may be tailored to the
particular application and the particular testing
phase. In addition to tailoring content, additional
documents may be added to the basic set,
additional sections may be added to any
document and additional content to any section.
It may be useful to organize some of the sections
into subsections. Some or all of the contents of a
section may be contained in another document
which is then referenced. Each organization
using the standard should specify additional
content requirements and conventions in order to
reflect their own particular methodologies,
approaches, facilities, and tools for testing,
documentation control, configuration
management, and quality assurance.
The standard applies to documentation on
electronic media as well as paper. Paper must be
used for documents requiring approval
signatures, unless the electronic documentation
system has a secure approval annotation
mechanism and that mechanism is used.
2. Definitions
This section contains key terms as they are used
in the standard.
design level. The design decomposition of the
software item (for example, system, subsystem,
program, or module).
pass/fail criteria. Decision rules used to deter-
mine whether a software item or a software
feature passes or fails a test.
software feature. A distinguishing characteristic
of a software item (for example, performance,
portability, or functionality).
software item. Source code, object code, job
control code, control data, or a collection of
these items.
test. (1) A set of one or more test cases, or
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