Best Practices for Test Planning

Posted By : Anjali Pandey | 30-Dec-2017

When a team is already assigned to the project and the risk analysis phase is completed the next phase comes test planning, which is a most important phase.
If we want to deliver a software which is up to the mark for the client so we need to focus to document the test plan. In which we document how we are going to test the software.


This is the format to add a test plan for any software:-

  • Test plan ID: I should be a unique number or name, by which we can identify it.
  • Introduction: Need to describe the project in brief. 
  • Test Items: Here you should mention the module name, which needs to be tested.
  • Features to be tested: Need to mention the function with their functionalities, how the function should work.
  • Feature not to be tested: Need to mention the function which we don't have to test, these are the out of scope.
  • Approach: Need to mention which approach you are going to follow.
  • Feature pass/fail criteria: Need to add the fail/pass criteria.
  • Test Environment: Add the test environment hardware/ software required to test the software.
  • Test Deliverable: Mention all the document which required before delivering the software.
  • Responsibilities: need to mention the name of a person with his/her responsibility.
  • Schedule: Need to mention the estimated date of delivering the product.
  • Risks and Mitigation: Need to mention the risk we faced during the testing and their solutions as well.
  • Approves: Needs to take the approval of project manager and team lead that they agree with the above-mentioned information.
  • Test plan review: Need to hand over this test plan to test lead to review it and give the suggestion to make it better.
  • Conclusion: Once the test plan gets finalized then the actual testing process get started. Test Planning should start with the development process.
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Anjali is a QA Software Engineer, with experience in Manual Testing. She loves finding Bugs in application. Her hobbies are going for picnics with Friends and Reading stories.

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