What levels of regression testing will be done and how much at each test 

level?

Will regression testing be based on severity of defects detected?

How will elements in the requirements and design that do not make sense or 

are un testable be processed?

Item pass and fail criteria

What is the completion criteria for this plan? What is the number and severity of 

defects located? This is a critical aspect of any test plan and should be 

appropriate to the level of the plan.

Suspension criteria and resumption requirements

Know when to pause in a series of tests. If the number or type of defects reaches 

a point where the follow on testing has no value, it makes no sense to continue 

the test   you are just wasting resources.

Specify what constitutes stoppage for a test or series of tests, and what is the 

acceptable level of defects that will allow the testing to proceed past the defects.

Testing after a truly fatal error will generate conditions that may be identified as 

defects, but are in fact ghost errors caused by the earlier defects that were 

ignored.

Test deliverable

What is to be delivered as part of this plan?

Test plan document

Test cases

Test design specification

Tools and their outputs

Error logs and execution logs

Problem reports and corrective actions

One thing that is not a test deliverable is the software itself, which is listed under 

test items, and is delivered by development.

Environmental needs

Are there any special requirements for this test plan such as:

Special hardware such as simulators, static generators, etc.

How will test data be provided? Are there special collection requirements or 

specific ranges of data that must be provided?

How much testing will be done on each component of a multi part feature?

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