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vidhya
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Quote vidhya Replybullet Topic: Testing without a Test plan
    Posted: 27Mar2007 at 12:25am

Testing Without a Formal Test Plan

A formal test plan is a document that provides and records important information about a test project, for example:

  • project and quality assumptions
  • project background information
  • resources
  • schedule & timeline
  • entry and exit criteria
  • test milestones
  • tests to be performed
  • use cases and/or test cases

For a range of reasons -- both good and bad -- many software and web development projects don't budget enough time for complete and comprehensive testing. A quality test team must be able to test a product or system quickly and constructively in order to provide some value to the project. This essay describes how to test a web site or application in the absence of a detailed test plan and facing short or unreasonable deadlines.

Identify High-Level Functions First

High-level functions are those functions that are most important to the central purpose(s) of the site or application. A test plan would typically provide a breakdown of an application's functional groups as defined by the developers; for example, the functional groups of a commerce web site might be defined as shopping cart application, address book, registration/user information, order submission, search, and online customer service chat. If this site's purpose is to sell goods online, then you have a quick-and-dirty prioritization of:

  1. shopping cart
  2. registration/user information
  3. order submission
  4. address book
  5. search
  6. online customer service chat

I've prioritized these functions according to their significance to a user's ability to complete a transaction. I've ignored some of the lower-level functions for now, such as the modify shopping cart quantity and edit saved address functions because they are a little less important than the higher-level functions from a test point-of-view at the beginning of testing.

Your opinion of the prioritization may disagree with mine, but the point here is that time is critical and in the absence of defined priorities in a test plan, you must test something now. You will make mistakes, and you will find yourself making changes once testing has started, but you need to determine your test direction as soon as possible.



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Quote venkataramana Replybullet Posted: 16Oct2008 at 1:52am
Testing with out test plan, may not give clear picture of testing stargery followed, tools used, 100% coverage wont be there if no proper test plans are provided
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Quote tossy Replybullet Posted: 22Oct2008 at 5:39am
Nowadays test plan is in high demand. Test plan reflects your entire project testing schedule and approach. Without proper test planning testing process will not be complete.

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Quote santosh.azh2008 Replybullet Posted: 27Nov2008 at 4:11am
what is test stategy?
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Quote Anna Lee Replybullet Posted: 11Nov2009 at 3:59am
Originally posted by venkataramana

Testing with out test plan, may not give clear picture of testing stargery followed, tools used, 100% coverage wont be there if no proper test plans are provided



Hi all, I am a new member of forum. Would a newcomer be warmly welcome here? Good day you guys!!!



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