Add Prompts or a Questions Section on your Project Test Plans

At the start of the project I find there’s a little nerves as you have no idea what you are doing. The best way I find to work through that feeling and move from “I have no idea what any of this is about” to “I have a plan and know what I’m doing” is to write a Test Plan. These are fundamental to write at the start of the project to look at things from a big picture view.

Prompts on our test plan

On our test plan template we currently have prompts in different sections. For example, in the scope section, we have a prompt to think about what quality characteristics we need to think about or test techniques we’ll use. It simply helps jog the memory of what we need to think about. Very useful instead of having to remember everything.

Questions

Another section we are experimenting on is a Questions section. We write down any questions and then reach out to the right project team member. It is proving really useful to drive out the details.

What do you have on your Test Plan? Have you considered adding prompts or a question section?