How to write Test Plan?

What is a Test Plan?

Test planning, the most important activity to ensure that there is initially a list of tasks and milestones in a baseline plan to track the progress of the project. It also defines the size of the test effort.
It is the main document often called as master test plan or a project test plan and usually developed during the early phase of the project.

Benefits of Test Plan

•  Test Plan helps us to determine the efforts needed to validate the quality of the application  under test (AUT).
• Help people outside the test team such as developers, business managers, customers understand the details of testing.
• Test Plan guides our thinking. It is like a rule book, which needs to be followed.
• Important aspects like test estimation, test scope, test strategy are documented in Test Plan, so it can be reviewed by Management Team and re-used for other projects.

How to Write Test Plan?

1. Analyze the product
2. Develop Test Strategy
   1. Define Scope of Testing
   2. Identify Testing Type
   3. Document Risk & Issues
   4. Create Test Logistic
3. Define Test Objective
4. Define Test Criteria
5. Resource Planning
6. Plan Test Environment
7. Schedule & Estimation
8. Test Deliverables