Three Essential Questions To Ask Before Creating Your Next Test Plan
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Is a written test plan really worth it? Perhaps you continue to create them because they have always been around and are always required. Before creating your next test plan, ask these three questions.
1. What feedback have you recently received about previous test plans?
Did your target audience find your written test plan useful? What information did they take from it that helped them make a decision? If you’ve not received recent feedback, ask for some. Find out who reads it and what value they get. Tweak your next test plan tailoring the style to your audience.
2. Who could collaborate on your next test plan?
Consider someone who you haven’t worked with before. What is it about their role and their skill set that could add value to your written test plan? Perhaps they work in a Customer Service role and have direct daily contact with customers to help feed your test approach. Or perhaps someone in a sales role has a clear understanding of the customer’s pain points and you could use that information as an anchor for your test plan.?
3. How might you do something different??
Have you always written a test plan as a document in a tool like Microsoft Word, Atlassian Confluence or Google Docs? How about mixing things up and creating a mind map instead? Or consider recording a shareable video that describes your test plan. Seek an opportunity to mix things up not for the sake of it, yet to discover what useful information people reveal after consuming a different medium of a test plan.
?? Richard Paterson shares top tips in How To Write A Software Test Plan. Have a read today and see what ideas it sparks. ??
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1 年I like the general idea of the article and the 3 questions. I'm struggling a bit with explicit stating of "written" test plan. First and for most is for me a test plan a set of ideas (of we want to test). No matter its physical/digital form. This ideas needs to be discussed somehow. As the 3. questions hints it a bit, a test plan never has only to be written. Sure, oral is more elusive, but would work too. My point is: It is important to discuss the ideas what to test with others. It is about the people! Choose any form that is appropriate for your context. And don't just do the test plan because it was always around like this.
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1 年Thanks for posting