Software Test Plan

A software project test plan is a document that describes the objectives, scope, approach, and focus of a software testing effort. The process of preparing a test plan is a useful way to think through the efforts needed to validate the acceptability of a software product. The completed document will help people outside the test group understand the why and how of product validation.
Test plan is a document through which we can describe objective, approach, scope and focus of software testing efforts. A Test Plan contains following particulars like:
1. Overview
2. Scope
3. Bounds
4. Settings
5. Definitions
6. Quality Risks
7. Schedule
8. Transitions
9. Entry Criteria
10. Stop Criteria
11. Exit Criteria
12. Test Configurations and Environments
13. Test Execution
14. Resources
15. Management of Bugs and Tests
16. Bug isolation and classification
17. Release Management
18. Test Cycles
19. Referenced Documents
20. Change History

Test Plan

A software project test plan is a document that describes the objectives, scope, approach and focus of a software testing effort. The process of preparing a test plan is a useful way to think through the efforts needed to validate the acceptability of a software product. The completed document will help people outside the test group understand the why and how of product validation. It should be thorough enough to be useful, but not so thorough that none outside the test group will be able to read it