What steps are needed to develop and run software tests?

The following are some of the steps to consider:

• Requirement should be clear
• budget and schedule should be clearly defined.
• Defined resource and their responsibilities, reporting hierarchy, required standards and processes
• Need to do first risk analysis, set priorities work, and determine scope and limitations of tests with time frame.
• Determine testing approaches which is using in testing- unit, integration, smoke ,beta testing functional, system, load, usability tests, etc.
• Setup pre required  test environment.

Need to defined individual team member role and responsibility

• Need Set schedule estimates, time-frame
• Determine input and possible out come through test cases like  equivalence classes, boundary value
• Prepare test plan document according to release wise
• Write test cases according to provided  document
• Perform tests defined test according to test plan.
• Evaluate and report results and outcome.
• Need to analysis problems/bugs and fixes.
• Maintain and update release document, test plans, test cases, user manual through life cycle