Good Test Plan

Good Test Plans Meet the following criteria

Complete – Test for All Categories

1. Functional

Performance

Boundary

Invalid

Expected Failure Points

Bonus -

Additional Test Areas depending on product:

Accessibility, Usability, International, Regression, etc….


2. Detailed - How many ways can you test each given test scenario. If one is testing assembling the blender, a good tester would evaluate whether it is easy, intuitive, safe, secure and functional. Don’t just state “ I would test assembling the blender” That is an example of a poor test scenario.

3. Creative – Impress the manager by thinking outside the box.

Basically, each specific test case should answer the following three questions

1. What am I going to test for?
2. How am I going to test it?
3. What are the expected results?