Define Test Strategy and Test Plan

What is Test Strategy?
It is a Organization level document and developed by PM. Which defines "Testing Approach" to achieve testing objective.

Contents in the Test Strategy are as below:
1. Scope and objective
2. Business issues
3. Roles and responsibilities
4. Communication and status reporting
5. Test deliverability
6. Test approach
7. Test automation and tools
8. Testing measurements and metrices
9. Risks and mitigation
10. Defect reporting and tracking
11. Change and configuration management
12. Training plan

What is Test Plan?
After completion of testing team formation and risk analysis, PM or Test Lead will prepare test plan document in terms of what to test, how to test, who to test, and when to test.

Test plan is document developed from SRS, FS, UC.

There is one Master Test Plan consists of reviewed Project Test Plan and Phase Test Plan.

Contents are as below:

1. Test Plan id
2. Introduction
3. Test items
4. Features to be tested
5. Features not to be tested
6. Approach
7. Testing tasks
8. Suspension criteria
9. Features pass or fail criteria
10. Test environment (Entry criteria, Exit criteria)
11. Test deliverable(s)
12. Staff and training needs
13. Responsibilities
14. Schedule
15. Risk and mitigation
16. Approach

This is one of the standard approach to prepare test plan document, but it can vary company-to-company.