Impact of the Software Development Lifecycle on Testing

1. Integration of testing
   The SDLC determines when testing activities are integrated (separate phase or integrated).

2. Documentation style
   The SDLC guides the style of test documentation. Waterfall requires more detailed and comprehensive documentation as it’s an entire phase. Agile favors concise, flexible, and iterative docs.

3. Testing techniques
   Requirements-based (typical in Waterfall) vs. exploratory (typically in Agile).

4. Test automation
   If you can automate tasks that are done repeatedly and are labor-intensive, why wouldn’t you? But automation has a bad reputation because of the time lost to maintenance. It favors Agile as requirements and functionality change more rapidly.

5. Tester’s Role
   It’s good to have strengths and specializations, but you want to have multi-functional teams so there is no single point of failure.

Sequential Model

• Requirements gathering and analysis
• System design
• Implementation/Coding
• Testing and Deployment

V-Model

• Requirements analysis: user needs, system specs
• System design: system architecture based on requirements
• High-level test planning: cover design and requirements
• Unit testing: individual units of functionality