InvenTest has a well-defined Manual Life cycle of Testing, which is applicable to all testing scenarios. The life cycle ensures that all the relevant inputs are obtained, the planning is adequately carried out and the executions are as per plan.

In addition the results are obtained reviewed and monitored. The life cycle also defines the interfaces into the overall Quality management processes and also the Project delivery phases.

The Manual Life Cycle Testing are carried out in the following phases:

1. Requirements stage
2. Test Plan
3. Test Design
4. Design Reviews
5. Code Reviews
6. Test Cases preparation
7. Test Execution
8. Test Reports
9. Bugs Reporting
10. Reworking on patches
11. Release to production