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Test Plan

Test Plan is a roadmap of our test. It defines the strategy, scope, resources, schedule, and approach to be used for performance testing.

Purpose

Define the testing strategy and approach to achieve performance objectives.

Benefit

Provides clarity to all stakeholders and ensures a structured and measurable testing process.

Who Creates

Performance Test Lead / Test Engineers

Reviewed By

Project Team, Architects, Infrastructure Team, NW Team, Stakeholders

Approval

Must be reviewed and approved before test execution.

Test Plan Components

Component Description
Objective of the Test Define the goals and performance objectives of the test.
Scope Define what will be tested in this performance test.
Items Out of Scope Define what will not be included in the performance test.
Test Approach Overall strategy and methodology to achieve the test objectives.
Procedure Step-by-step activities to be followed during testing.
Types of Testing Load, Stress, Endurance, Scalability, Spike, Baseline, Soak, etc.
CBT's (Critical Business Transactions) List of critical transactions that will be tested with priority.
Test Data Details of data required for performance testing.
Application Architecture High-level overview of the application architecture.
Tool Architecture Architecture of performance testing tool and its components.
Environment Hardware, software, network configuration and setup details.
Monitoring Strategy Metrics to monitor (CPU, Memory, Disk, Network, Application, DB, etc.).
Deliverables Documents and reports that will be delivered.
Roles & Responsibilities Roles of each team member and their responsibilities.
Risks & Mitigations Potential risks identified and mitigation plan.
Prerequisites Requirements that must be available before test execution.
Assumptions Assumptions made during planning the test.
Entry Criteria Conditions that must be met to start testing.
Exit Criteria Conditions based on which testing will be considered complete.

Entry Criteria

Whenever the pre-requisites are satisfied, that is called Entry Criteria.

Examples:
  • Test environment is ready
  • Test data is prepared and loaded
  • All scripts are reviewed
  • All approvals are obtained

Exit Criteria

Whenever derived statistics are meeting expected statistics, that can be considered as Exit Criteria.

Examples:
  • Response times meet SLA
  • System handles expected load
  • Error rate is within acceptable limit
  • Test objectives are achieved

Test Plan Summary

Section Key Details to Capture
What What are we trying to achieve?
How How the testing will be performed?
What to Test Which applications, modules, features, transactions are in scope?
How Much Load Expected users, transactions per second, ramp-up pattern, peak hours.
Where Environment details (Servers, OS, DB, Network, Middleware, Tools).
How to Measure What metrics will be captured and tools used?
When Timeline for each phase of testing.
Who Team members and their responsibilities.
Risks Risks identified and mitigation plan.
Deliverables What reports and documents will be provided?