1. Test Strategy
&
Test Planning

2. By
Vinay Srinivasan
(Senior Technical Associate)
Working At
Testing Center of Excellence
Laboratory,
TechMahindra, Pune

3. Introduction
Strategy
What to do?
Goal?
Target?
How to do?
Plan
Who should do?
When to do?
Efforts?
Costs?
Risks?
Benefits?
Deliverables?
Maintenance?

4. Test Strategy
 What to do?
 Identify the Scope of Testing
 Identify Types of Testing to be carried out
 Identify the Testing Tasks
 Identify whether any Testing Tools are required
 Identify whether any Frameworks need to be
used
 Identify the Metrics to be collected
 Identify the Deliverables, Dashboard and
Reports
 Identify the Factors affecting Quality of

5. Test Strategy (Continued…)
 How to do?
 Identify the Test Requirements
 Define Target Test Environments
 Identify the Testing Activities to Complete
Tasks
 Identify the ways to conduct the Testing
Activities
 Identify the Test Cases for the Testing
Activities
 Identify Resources for the Testing Activities
 Identify the ways to meet the deliverables

6. 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

7. Test Planning
(Continued..)
 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
 PERT
 CPM
 GANTT Chart


8. Test Planning
(Continued..)
 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

9. Test Planning
(Continued..)
 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

10. Test Planning
(Continued..)
 ROI?
 Cost Benefit Analysis
 Sign-Off?
 Agreement
 Satisfaction
 Future Plans?
 Explore
 New Business

11. Sample Dashboard Reporting (Test Report)

12. Sample Dashboard Reporting (continued..)

13. Sample Dashboard Reporting (continued..)

14. Sample ROI

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email vinay.srinivasan@techmahindra.com