Thread: Review Process

What is the difference between Technical and Peer Review. Both are same or there is a difference between them. Explain.

In the testing process after the test cases are written by the Testers for the Functional specifications it will be reviewed.

Firstly, the test cases will be reviewed by the Peers who belong to the same module, which is called as the peer review. The peer review will be done by both the peers and then by the Test Lead who will do review based on the sampling or all the test cases. Peer review itself will be done to check whether the test cases written satisfies the technical aspects mentioned in the requirement document. The review done by the peer itself is Technical review only.

Once the peer review is done the test cases will be reviewed by the Business Analyst to validate whether the test cases satisfy all the business functionalities.

While doing the review the reviewer will follow the check list which has the set of aspects the test cases has to be satisfy. Find attached the sample check list which will help you to understand better.