Writing effective status report is as important as the actual work you did! How to write a effective status report of your weekly work at the end of each week?
Here I am going to give some tips. Weekly report is important to track the important project issues, accomplishments of the projects, pending work and milestone analysis. Even using these reports you can track the team performance to some extent. From this report prepare future actionables items according to the priorities and make the list of next weeks actionable.
So how to write weekly status report?
Follow the below template:
Prepared By:
Project:
Date of preparation:
Status:
A) Issues:
Issues holding the QA team from delivering on schedule:
Project:
Issue description:
Possible solution:
Issue resolution date:
You can mark these issues in red colour. These are the issues that requires managements help in resolving them.
Issues that management should be aware:
These are the issues that not hold the QA team from delivering on time but management should be aware of them. Mark these issues in Yellow colour. You can use above same template to report them.
Project accomplishments:
Mark them in Green colour. Use below template.
Project:
Accomplishment:
Accomplishment date:
B) Next week Priorities:
Actionable items next week list them in two categories:
1) Pending deliverables: Mark them in blue colour: These are previous weeks deliverables which should get released as soon as possible in this week.
Project:
Work update:
Scheduled date:
Reason for extending:
2) New tasks:
List all next weeks new task here. You can use black colour for this.
Project:
Scheduled Task:
Date of release:
C) Defect status:
Active defects:
List all active defects here with Reporter, Module, Severity, priority, assigned to.
Closed Defects:
List all closed defects with Reporter, Module, Severity, priority, assigned to.
Test cases:
List total number of test cases wrote, test cases passed, test cases failed, test cases to be executed.
This template should give you the overall idea of the status report. Don’t ignore the status report. Even if your managers are not forcing you to write these reports they are most important for your work assessment in future.
Try to follow report writing routine. Use this template or at least try to report it in your own words about the overall work of which you can keep some track.
Do you have any better idea for this routine work? Comment it out!
38 comments ↓
Hi,
wrting daily status report is important. I got the problem when there was a bug in application module which was shared for testing in different testers. Even i had not tested that part of module and that bug came on my head.
So always keep some record of what you did.
Thanks for the template anyway..
Why do you suggest to write such a report daily or weekly? Woudn’t it be sufficient enough to submit a detailed report at the end of each iteration cycle? I mean, usually the developers don’t work on bug fixes while you are still testing the current iteration, so it shouldn’t be necessary to track resolved defects each day (ok, this is different for agile processes, but as no defect may “survive” the end of a day in most of those processes, a report should only contain the amount of time it took to resolve those defects, for future metrics use). But to stay informed about the advances in a project is never wrong. Besides the testers, every project member should be obliged to keep track of their work in a regular interval, so as to enable a reliable tracking of overall process states.
@- Henning
You can submit detailed report at the end of each iteration but its good idea to have details of each and every testing activity from your side which may or may not hold any development process.
From each such daily record then only you can submit the complete report at the end of process cycle.
how we doing gui testing
I need a template for Daily Status Report..Actually we do hv 1 but its too complicated for DSR.
So any1 who know a perfect DSR template kindly mail me on my account - roshni.gawandi@gmail.com
worth reading this article
thanks for the information…………..
hi,
information is useful but to whom we should send this report. as in previous company they told me to write but they didnt submit to anyone they told to maintain a file of it please tell me that do we send thru mail to our manger or what is the process to be followed after writing weekly status report
seeing this article we have added some more steps into our weekly report
really very worth reading this article
Thanks
We should also add few more things as addition into the points mentioned above.
1) Risk Analysis
2) No of Hrs spent on each criteria
3) Knowledge sharing from Documentation of features
4) Achievements
5) Best Practices
Thanks
@sameer
But as u mentioned, this cannot be added on a daily basis friend. We have more tasks to be done and preparing the report will again eat more time of a tester. Just my comment sameer. Don’t mind please
This article is very nice, but i got suggestion that you can give the template for weekly report in excel or word. it will be more useful.
Hi,
can any one give me template for daily status report
Hi,
can anyone give me a daily status Report Template with format and example.
Hi bindu,
Did u got template?If u so please send it to me …
thank u friends…..
Hi,
can anyone give me a daily status Report Template with format and example. And also example of weekly report.
what do you mean by “work update” in Pending deliverables.
what do you mean by “status” that is written at the top where you have started to describe this “Follow the below template:”?
What do you mean by project accomplishments?
This site is really very usefull for all the new tester. I suggest you to provide some test case examples in this page.
I am new to the testing and I am looking for test case examples . So please provide the examples in this page. It’s my request.
Daily Report:
You can use Subject with TCID.
also mention the status, assigned by, Time to finish, Major and Minor bugs etc..
If you want email me, i can create a Daily Report for you.
I am maintaining the Daily Report and Weekely Report for Reviews and Inspections, also to provide the Help in ISO upgradations.
Hai,
This site is really very usefull for all the new tester. and i suggest you to provide all the examples of testcases,issue reports,defect tracking reports and all in this page.
I want a template for Business Requirements document ans SRS document
I need a template for Daily Status Report, kindly mail me on my account ash_ritaa@yahoo.co.in
Hi Ashwini,
Have u given ur right email Id
as i am trying to send u sample templet
Hi,
can anyone give me a daily status Report Template with format and example
I need a template for Daily and Weekly Status Report, kindly mail me on my account ravikumark23@gmail.com
Regards,
Ravi kumar.k
Hai
I need some samle test case temlates and final report for manual testing .pls send me some sampes to my account ” yummy.abu@gmail.com
I need a template for Daily Status Report, if you have any format for dailly status reort and weekly status report pls forward me on my email id,
deshpandeswatis@gmail.com
Hi All,
This is Suresh Working as a Test Engineer . i have Weekly Status Report Template and many more templates so please give me ur mail id i ll send to u through mail.
Thanks,
Suresh
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Hi Friends,
Currently i am working in Non-IT field and planned to switch my career to testing.I had learned the basics of testing,and now i am very eager to learn testing practically with real time projects.
If any one interested to teach testing personally with real time projects , i will be more grateful, or else show me the right place in chennai.
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Hello, I need a template for a ONE PAGE daily status report , if you have any format for daily status reports in general or any type of weekly status report. please forward to me at: lillwillsh@sbcglobal.net
Need by Wednesday…July
Hello, I need a template for a ONE PAGE daily status report , if you have a format for daily status reports in general or any type of weekly status report. please forward to me at: lillwillsh@sbcglobal.net
Hi Ms. Lee
Done, I have send you the daily status report. Please let me know if you need any
clarification.
Regards,
Tiger2K
Can any one please send me the weekly status report template(Format) to my mail id vamsi.boppana@gmail.com
Thanks for help
Can any one please send me the weekly status report template(Format) with an example to my mail id vamsi.boppana@gmail.com
Thanks for help
Have a gr8 day
Hi
It is Really usefull and i suggest the same template
Thanks
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Can any one please send me the weekly status report template(Format) to my mail id sandeep_kmb@gmail.com
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Can any one please send me the weekly status report template(Format) to my mail id sandeep_kmb@gmail.com
Thanks for help
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