Building Test Plans from Specification
by David on Oct.08, 2011, under Testing
In the world of web, having a specification document is pretty much essential. How can you make promises and come to an agreement with a client if they are not documented and signed off on? Not having a specification document would be a nightmarish mistake. This very fact is great as a tester because it means that so long as you have access to the specification document you can plan ahead and create a test plan which should address each and every section of the specification.
The benefit of this is that you might come across a section of the project that needs to be looked into before any work is even commenced on it which saves time and money. You will also then have a well thought out test plan ready to go each time a new portion of the project is sent to you for testing. Too often time is limited and testing gets very of it to look at something as well as they’d like to. Having the test plan there ready to go will hopefully mean that you can still test thoroughly in a short amount of time as you know what to look for and have all your cases listed in advance.

