Creating Test Plan
Creating Test Plan
A: Test scenarios and/or cases are prepared by reviewing functional requirements of the
release and preparing logical groups of functions that can be further broken into test
procedures. Test procedures define test conditions, data to be used for testing and expected
results, including database updates, file outputs, report results. Generally speaking...
• Test cases and scenarios are designed to represent both typical and unusual
situations that may occur in the application.
• Test engineers define unit test requirements and unit test cases. Test engineers also
execute unit test cases.
• It is the test team that, with assistance of developers and clients, develops test cases
and scenarios for integration and system testing.
• Test scenarios are executed through the use of test procedures or scripts.
• Test procedures or scripts define a series of steps necessary to perform one or more
test scenarios.
• Test procedures or scripts include the specific data that will be used for testing the
process or transaction.
• Test procedures or scripts may cover multiple test scenarios.
• Test scripts are mapped back to the requirements and traceability matrices are used
to ensure each test is within scope.
• Test data is captured and base lined, prior to testing. This data serves as the
foundation for unit and system testing and used to exercise system functionality in a
controlled environment.
• Some output data is also base-lined for future comparison. Base-lined data is used to
support future application maintenance via regression testing.
• A pretest meeting is held to assess the readiness of the application and the
environment and data to be tested. A test readiness document is created to indicate
the status of the entrance criteria of the release.
• Approved documents of test scenarios, test cases, test conditions and test data.