March 27, 2013

Test Strategy Vs Test Plan



Test Strategy:
It is a company level document and developed by QA category people like Quality Controller. This document defines "Testing Approach" to achieve testing objective. Test strategy is the freezed part of SRS from which we get Test Policy and Test Strategy.

Components in the Test Strategy are as follows:
1. Scope and objective
2. Business issues
3. Roles and responsibilities
4. Communication and status reporting
5. Test deliverability
6. Test approach
7. Test automation and tools
8. Testing measurements and metrics
9. Risks and mitigation
10. Defect reporting and tracking
11. Change and configuration management
12. Training plan

Test Plan:
Test plan is the freezed document developed from SRS. After completion of testing team formation and risk analysis, Test Lead is preparing test plan document in term of what to test, how to test, who to test, and when to test.
There is one Master Test Plan consists of reviewed Project Test Plan and Phase Test Plan. So there is general talk about Project Test Plan.
Components are as follows:

1. Test Plan id
2. Introduction
3. Test items
4. Features to be tested
5. Features not to be tested
6. Approach
7. Testing tasks
8. Suspension criteria
9. Features pass or fail criteria
10. Test environment (Entry criteria, Exit criteria)
11. Test deliverables
12. Staff and training needs
13. Responsibilities
14. Schedule
15. Risk and mitigation
16. Approach

This is one of the standard approaches to prepare test plan document, but things can vary company-to-company

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