Test Planning (Summary)

Test planning is one of the most important factor in the testing life cycle.
Test planning is the collective approach of testing methodologies and activities.
Following things should be consider at the time of test planning.

Who should do?
 Skills, Roles, Responsibilities
 Team Formation
 Allocating Testing Tasks to Teams
 Allocating Testing Task related activities to individuals

Efforts?
 Task Efforts
- Activity Efforts
 Function Point Analysis
 Wideband Delphi
 Work Breakdown Structure
 COCOMO II
 Percentage
 Analogy
 Sizing

Feasibility Study & Proof of Concept?

When to do? (Test Execution..etc)
 When to Start
- Entry Criteria
 When to Stop
 When to Continue
 When to End/ Finish
- Exit Criteria
 Scheduling

Reviews?

Costs?
 Fixed Cost
 Pricing to Win
 Time and Material
 COCOMO II

Risks?
 Requirements are not Frozen
 Issues
 Defend Decisions
 Risk Mitigation

Manage Testing?
 Traceability Matrix

Deliverables?
 Test Cases
 Change and Review Logs
 Test Results
 Test Reports

Maintenance Plan?
 Defect Tracking and Diagnosis
 Trace Bottlenecks
 Defect Fixes and Re-Tests
 Skills
 Competency
 Quality

ROI?
 Cost Benefit Analysis

Sign-Off?
 Agreement
 Satisfaction

Future Plans?
 Explore
 New Business