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Software Quality Assurance Engineer
Release Categories and Testing Activities
Release Categories
Major Release - These releases includes substantial product changes and rolls out key improvements in functionality.
Minor Release - These releases are not a total overhaul of a feature but rather they enhance and improve existing functions.
Hotfix - These are releases with the intention to immediately fix sudden and pressing issues. The point of these releases is to fix something urgent. These are done to make sure that the software continues to run effectively and securely.
Table 1.1
Required Test Activities for Hotfixes
Description
Environment
1
Functional Testing
Functional testing is performed to verify if corresponding fix or fixes are already fixed within QA standards (Ticket Verification)
Develop
2
Sanity Testing
This to ensure that the fix is deployed in the corresponding environment
Staging
3
Automated Smoke Testing
Affected modules of corresponding automated smoke test will be executed to ensure that the high level flow works properly.
Staging
4
Regression Testing
Affected module of corresponding regression test will be executed to ensure that the fix of critical issue did not affect any existing flow, this will only be performed once categorised by qa & dev
Staging
5
Performance Testing
Will be executed if there are fixes that are specific to performance.
Develop and Staging
6
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