Templates:

This section contains all the templates for the documents which will be used in the project. Only these templates will be used by all the test engineers in the project so as to provide uniformity to the entire project. The various documents which will be covered in the Template section are,

·         Test Case

·         Traceability Matrix

·         Test Execution Report

·         Defect Report

·         Test Case Review Template

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This is how a Test Plan document looks like,

In the 1^st page – we initially fill in only version(write as Draft 1.0), author, comments and reviewed by. Later on when the manager approves it, we fill in the Approved by and approval date and also remove (Draft) written in version column.

Generally Test Engineers only review it and the test plan is approved by Test Manager.

When new features come, we modify the Test Plan. Change the version and whichever features need to be changed. Again it is reviewed, updated and approved by manager. Test Plan must be updated whenever changes happen.

References (Page 20) contain all the documents that are used to write the test plan document.

Test Plan written by

®    Test Lead – 55%

®    Test Manager – 23%

®    Test Engineer – 22%

Thus, we can see from above – in 60% of projects, Test plan is written by Test Lead and so on as shown above.

Test Plan reviewed by

®    Test Engineer

®    Test Lead

®    Test Manager

®    Customer

®    Development team

Test Engineer looks at the Test plan from his module point of view.

Test Manager looks at the Test plan from the customer point of view.

 Test Plan approved by

®    Test Manager

®    Customer

 Test Cases are written by

®    Test Engineer

®    Test Lead

 Test Cases are reviewed by

®    Test Lead

®    Test Engineer

®    Development Team

®    Customer

 Test Cases approved by

®    Test Lead

®    Test Manager

®    CustomerIn the 1^st page – we initially fill in only version(write as Draft 1.0), author, comments and reviewed by. Later on when the manager approves it, we fill in the Approved by and approval date and also remove (Draft) written in version column.

Generally Test Engineers only review it and the test plan is approved by Test Manager.

When new features come, we modify the Test Plan. Change the version and whichever features need to be changed. Again it is reviewed, updated and approved by manager. Test Plan must be updated whenever changes happen.

References (Page 20) contain all the documents that are used to write the test plan document.