Moderator leads a formal review process - Test processes

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• Prajakta Pandit   -Posted on 05 Nov 15
  
  - Moderator leads a formal review process.
  
  - Formal review is a well structured and regulated.
  
  - It follows a formal process.
  
  - Formal review process steps :
  
    - 1. Planning
    - 2. Kick-off
    - 3. Preparation
    - 4. Review meeting
    - 5. Rework
    - 6. Follow-up
  
  1. Planning : This is the first phase of the formal review. This phase is begins with a request for review by the author to the moderator. A moderator has take care of the scheduling like date, time, place and invitation of the review.
  
  2. Kick-off : This is an optional step in a review procedure. The main goal of this step is to give short introduction on the objectives of the review and the documents to everyone in the meeting.
  
  3. Preparation : In this phase, reviewers review the document individually using the related documents, procedures, rules and checklists provided.
  
  4. Review meeting : The review meeting consists of three phases :
    - 1. Logging phase : In this phase, the issues and the defects that have been identified during the preparation step are logged page by page.
  
    - 2. Discussion phase : If any issue needs a discussion then the item is logged and handled in the discussion phase.
  
    - 3. Decision phase : At the end of the meeting a decision on the document under review has to be made by the participants.
  
  5. Rework : In this phase, if the number of defects found per page exceeds the certain level, then the document has to be reworked.
  
  6. Follow-up : In this phase, a moderator check to make sure that the author has taken action on all known defects.
  
  

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