What should be
included in a test plan? In general, they are: goals, scopes, methods,
schedules, resources, templates, standards, reports.
The goals of a
test plan are the reasons and results that you need to do a testing:
1. Completion rate
2. Error-free rate
3. Time on Tasks
4. Subjective
measures
5. Start/complete
criteria
6. Approach
7. Output
The scopes of a
test plan are that you will test:
1. Task list
2. Fail/pass
scenarios
3. Test depth
4. Test width
5. Methods
6. Metrics
7. Acceptable/unacceptable
issues
8. Trainings
9. Release documents
10. Reports
11. Priority and
severity sets
12. Test methodology
13. Test tools
The methods of a
test plan are the ways to do test:
1. Test case
development methodology
2. Manual testing
methodology
3. Auto testing
methodology
4. Process to review
test case
5. Process to manage
test case
6. Process to execute
test case
7. Process to report
bug
8. Process to fix bug
9. Process to verify
bug
10. Process to
generate reports
11. Process to
generate documents
The schedules of a
test plan are the time sheets to set milestones and checkpoints:
1. When the design
docs ready for test case development
2. When the test case
ready for test case review
3. When the test
environment ready for test
4. When the
milestones get the deadline
5. When to start
smoke testing
6. When to start functional
testing
7. When to start
regression testing
8. When to deploy a
new build
9. When to verify
bugs
10. When to GA build
11. When to close the
testing
The resources of a
test plan are what you can use to do the testing:
1. What human
resources that you need
2. What hardware
resources that you need
3. What software
resources that you need
The templates of a
test plan are used to generate each required documents in the testing:
1. Design documents template
2. Test outline
template
3. Test case template
4. Bug templates
5. Reports templates
6. Release templates
The standards of a
test plan are needed to follow in the testing:
1. Test case
development standards
2. Test case
execution standards
3. Bug actions
standard
4. Release standard
The reports of a
test plan are exaction trace of the testing:
1. Phase reports
2. Build reports
3. Daily reports
4. Weekly reports
5. Monthly reports
6. Release reports
7. Process reports
8. Management reports
9. Resources reports
10. Progress reports
(Objectiva QA forum, Eddie Zhang)
