Task: Develop Test Plan
This task creates the test plan once the requirements for the test are known.
Disciplines: Test
Purpose
The purpose of this task is to create a test plan that depicts the approach, scope and content of a test suite.
Relationships
Main Description
This task creates the unit test plan or suite based upon the context of the model being built in the current activity. The model could be the Platform Independent Model or the Platform Specific Model.
Steps
Create test plan organization
Define the organization structure you will use in the test plan i.e. chapters, sections, index, etc.
Add Test Cases to test suite
Each test case should include preconditions, data, test flow, and expected results.
Add "verify" traceability from test cases to requirements
It is important to establish traceability from the test case to the requirement as soon as you write the test case.
Perform coverage analysis to ensure test case coverage is adequate
This is very difficult to do by hand.  It is best to perform coverage analysis using test coverage tools.
Specify tester steps required for test execution
The tester must know how to set up, perform, and analyze the test execution.