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