The purpose of the ISO/IEC/IEEE 29119 series of software testing standards is to define an internationally-agreed set of standards for software testing that can be used by any organization when performing any form of software testing. ISO/IEC/IEEE 29119-3 includes templates and examples of test documentation. The templates are arranged within clauses reflecting the overall test process description structure in ISO/IEC/IEEE 29119-2, i.e. by the test process in which they are being produced. Annex A outlines the contents of each document and maps each document to ISO/IEC/IEEE 29119-2. Annex B contains an overview of the examples. Annexes C to R contain examples of the application of the templates. Annex S provides mappings to existing standards. Annex T explains the use of the term Test Model in this document. The Bibliography for this part of ISO/IEC/IEEE 29119 is at the end of the document. ISO/IEC/IEEE 29119-3 supports dynamic testing, functional and non-functional testing, manual and automated testing, and scripted and unscripted testing. The documentation templates defined in ISO/IEC/IEEE 29119-3 can be used in conjunction with any software development lifecycle model.
- Sponsor Committee
- C/S2ESC - Software & Systems Engineering Standards Committee
- Status
- Active Standard
- PAR Approval
- 2019-02-08
- Superseding
- 29119-3-2013
- Board Approval
- 2021-09-23
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- Published:
- 2021-10-28
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- IEEE Computer Society
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- C/S2ESC - Software & Systems Engineering Standards Committee
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SF - Working Group for Software Testing
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- Patricia Roder
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- Jon Hagar
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