This document outlines key considerations for creating an effective software test plan, emphasizing the importance of requirements analysis, test strategy definition, resource planning, and scheduling. It highlights the necessity of identifying entry and exit criteria for testing, as well as the need for ongoing updates to the test plan to maintain quality throughout the software development lifecycle. Additionally, the document stresses that a comprehensive test plan is critical for ensuring successful and quality-driven testing efforts.

1. 8
Things to Keep In
Mind before
Starting With
Test-Plan

2. • In Software testing, There is much debate that how to achieve quality and how to plan the testing activities.
• This tutorial will explain to you all about Software Test Plan and suggest the ways on how to plan test activities from
scratch along with the test planning and test execution.
• Most of what is expected to achieve quality in a software test phase with best practices are summarized in this topic.
These practices have an impact in addition to improving Quality.
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Requirements
Analysis
Test
Planning
Test Case
Development
Environment
Setup
Test
Execution
Test Cycle
Closure
Introduction

3. 8 Things Keep In Mind
Analyze the product
Design the Test Strategy
Define the Test Objectives
Resource Planning
Plan Test Environment
Schedule & Estimation
Identify Entry and Exit Criteria:
Determine Test Deliverables

4. Analyze the product Design the Test Strategy
• Product analysis processes to become familiar with
the product! What does it do? What does it look
like? All this information you would need to be
asked before a product can be analyzed.
• It is also important to consider how it becomes
user-friendly.
• Design Test Strategy is essential when keeping a plan in mind.
• Test Strategy tells you how to use testing for managing project
and product risks.
• It contains the process which needs to be bifurcated into
different levels of testing phases.
• It also indicates which testing strategy should be used in which
situation? Strategies can differ based on project requirements like
regulatory requirements, risk levels, and different methodologies
of software development.

5. Define the Test Objectives Resource Planning
• The goals and objectives of software testing are
numerous, which when achieved help developers build
defect-less and error-free software.
• Understand the scope of your application.
• Based on this we must plan our resources and other
related activities.
• Our resource planning should be well enough effective
that will show how we are going to use our resource in
all testing phases.

6. Plan Test Environment Schedule & Estimation
• It is one of the most important Phases for the tester,
which plays a key role in achieving success in the
testing.
• It provides all the pre-requisites that are required to
perform the task of testing on a particular software
product.
• Schedule and estimation are one of the important parts of
product development.
• It shows how things will go during the development.
• The schedule is basically told that how the things will be delivered
to the customer. It shows the delivery schedule of the product.
• Test Estimation, on the other hand, is a management activity that
serves how long a task would take to complete.
• Estimating effort for the test is one of the major and important
tasks in Test Management.

7. Identify Entry and Exit Criteria: Determine Test Deliverables
• Entry and exit criteria in the testing cycle define when
to start and when to stop testing.
• This is a very crucial stage to identify these constraints
in the testing cycle.
• We must have knowledge about the areas and
conditions in product development where to start with
our testing when to stop.
• Test Deliverables are the artifacts that are given to the
customer in the form of software projects during the
development lifecycle.
• There are different test deliverables at every phase of the
software development lifecycle.
• Determine and plan the test deliverables.
• Provide the evidence of your deliverables which can show
your efforts to be applied in the project to build quality.

8. Key practices that improve overall software
quality include the following:
• Keep eye on driving
requirements and have a focus
on crucial use cases of the
application early in the
development cycle.
• Use tracking metrics
and indicators to
measure progress and
quality.
• One of the important
aspects of the testing life
cycle is planning.
• Hence Test-Plan
document plays a
very important role in
testing.

9. • It is a detailed extensive document that
basically has outlines of your strategy,
Test Estimation, test deliverables,
resources (manpower, software, and
hardware) required for testing, test
schedule, etc. from a Selenium Testing
Services Providers.
• The document contains what to
test, how to test when to test
and who will do what test.
• The Test Plan document is derived from
the product Requirement Specification, or
Use Case Documents. It is usually
prepared by a testing team especially by a
lead or manager who is taking care of all
the testing activities in product
development.

10. • Avoiding deterioration of software quality over time requires a conscious effort, both on the part of the
Product Owner and the engineering team.
• Have the pre-plan before starting with the testing phase is one of the best steps towards gaining quality.
• The test plan should be reviewed a number of times prior to baselining it or sending it for approval.
• The quality of your test plan speaks volumes about the quality of the testing you or your team is going to
perform.
• Update the plan as and when necessary.
• An outdated and unused document stinks and is worse than not having the document in the first place.

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