Ltd. The Cinderella Effect Testing best practice, is that test specification and design work parallels systems development, and that test running validates and verifies the developed system. Unfortunately this ideal state of affairs often does not exist.
Testing is confined to test running, and sandwiched between code writing and project completion.
Any slippage of the earlier stages squeezes the test running stage. Furthermore, testing is commonly treated as a task that many can do. Managers believe that you do not need to be skilled or trained in the same way analysts and programmers are. Testing jobs are moveable feasts that can be given to those who complain the least about doing them. Consequently testing becomes the Cinderella in the project life cycle.