Test Planning
Types of quality assurance planning include:
- Process QA plans document how the project is meeting quality and compliance standards ensuring the right documentation exists to guide project delivery and corrective actions, and
- Requirements/application test plans document how the product, service or system meets stated business and technical requirements, and how it will work within the defined operational/business processes and work flow.
Test plans typically used for development efforts include:
- Unit Test Plans (UT) documents what the programmer is coding for a particular screen or unit.
- Integrated Systems Test Plan (IST) documents how the system will be tested to assure major errors are fixed and how end-to-end testing between one-off applications will occur.
- Integration Application Test Plans (IAT) documents how applications will test end-to-end all new functionality across all applications.
- User Acceptance Testing (UAT) documents how the users, who will be supporting the new and existing functionality in production, will test this new functionality prior to production installation.
- Operations Interface Readiness Test Plan (OIR) documents how the operations user will test all new and existing functionality.