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Chapter 2 - Planning Tests

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Planning Tests
This chapter describes how to plan tests. It includes the following topics:
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About test planning
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Identifying what to test by using test inputs
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Creating a test plan
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Organizing test cases with folders
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Creating test cases
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Managing test assets
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For detailed procedures, see the TestManager Help.
About Test Planning
The activity of test planning answers the question, "What do I have to test to meet the
agreed-upon quality objectives?" When you complete your test planning, you have a
test plan that defines what you are going to test.
Test planning happens over time. Different members of the team -- such as product
managers, analysts, testers, and developers -- might come up with new test cases that
you have to define, new situations that you need to test, and new features that you are
just learning about. In other words, don't just create a test plan at the beginning of the
process and then view it as a stagnant document. A test plan is a continually evolving
asset.
In TestManager, test planning consists of the following major tasks:
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Gathering and identifying the test inputs
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Creating the test plan or test plans
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Creating the test case folders
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Creating the test cases
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Defining the configurations you need to test against
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Defining the iterations -- when you need to run the tests