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Teams can be ad hoc or take a laissez-faire attitude about testing; however, if they truly want to trust the value of the software they are delivering, they should actively develop and maintain a strategic test plan.  \nThe journey to a team’s successful agile test planning begins with understanding the test phases within a DevOps delivery pipeline. The test plan for a continuous testing environment must be lightweight, flexible and aligned to the boundaries of the phases in the pipeline.  \nThe shift-left movement still requires critical thinking when it comes to test strategy and planning. Let’s explore what a modern, lightweight approach to a test plan can look like in a DevOps environment.  \nTRADITIONAL TEST-PLANNING PRACTICES  \nFirst, though, we should understand the foundation established by traditional test-planning methods. In this context, traditional testing is generally classified as waterfall in nature, where quality takes precedence over speed to market. Traditional testing can also be viewed as agile, yet there is a defined phase or phases where testing is not fully automated. Often there is a reasonable dependency on manual testing and iteration.  \nA test plan is designed with the system under test in mind, and the rigor increases if the product is subject to compliance or regulation. Traditional test plan methodologies derived from the Rational Unified Process (RUP) or Capability Maturity Model Integration (CMMI) suggest deep layers of documentation, which is supported by the ISTQB definition of a test plan.  \nTeams adopting RUP or striving for CMMI certification navigate a complex world of expected artifacts to build a comprehensive test plan. Initially, RUP was designed to be a flexible framework, but somewhere along the software development journey it became prescriptive.  \nIn the context of traditional approaches to software delivery, a test plan requires many supporting artifacts. The approach may start with a master test plan and then a series of incremental test plans for each software iteration. Teams are constantly updating and maintaining a high level of documentation. Within RUP, a test plan has foundations of the requirements for testing, a risk assessment and the actual test strategy.  \nThe test strategy breaks down even further into the types of tests and their objectives. Functional testing covers unit, integration, system and acceptance testing. Nonfunctional testing covers performance, reliability and accessibility. The documentation includes the detailed techniques leveraged for each testing type, the mechanisms for measurement and any special conditions that may be required, and the stages where the testing takes place may live in yet another document. Requirements are matrixed to this documentation.  \n1  \nThe complexity of traditional testing is illustrated by dissecting one artifact within a test plan: the test case. A test case is built using these attributes:  \nTest case name  \nTest case description  \nPre-conditions  \nTest inputs  \nObservation points  \nControl points  \nExpected results  \nPost-conditions  \nThe process for critically thinking about these eight attributes and writing them into documents can be arduous. There are many test-planning applications available with the intent of injecting speed into this documentation process.  \nBut in an agile world, working software and the adaptation to change is highly valued over comprehensive documentation. An agile mindset based on lean principles inspires a more nimble test plan embedded in modern testing methodologies.  \nMODERN TEST PLANNING  \nIn contrast, DevOps testing today moves at great speed, and there is little time to maintain detailed artifacts such as the test strategy and the test cases described ","cbCaipCxZc8jifgL","https://ap.wps.com/l/cbCaipCxZc8jifgL","pdf",309524,8,"English","# Updating Traditional Test Plans for a DevOps Environment\n## Traditional test-planning practices\n## Modern test planning\n## Testing phases in a DevOps pipeline","[{\"question\":\"Why do DevOps teams need a strategic test plan beyond ad hoc testing?\",\"answer\":\"To trust the value of the software being delivered, teams must actively develop and maintain a strategic test plan rather than relying on ad hoc or laissez-faire approaches.\"},{\"question\":\"What characterizes traditional test planning compared with DevOps testing?\",\"answer\":\"Traditional testing is often waterfall-oriented, slower to market due to emphasis on quality and manual iteration, and it typically relies on many documentation layers tied to models like RUP or CMMI.\"},{\"question\":\"What should a modern DevOps test plan include at minimum?\",\"answer\":\"It should include a strategy, commonly stored in a collaborative platform like a wiki, and automation code that defines atomic test cases as scripts, aligned to pipeline phases.\"}]","Updating Traditional Test Plans for a DevOps Environment - Modern Lightweight Approach | PDF",1789178238]