Friday, October 02, 2009 10:51 AM
joshpoley
Test Plan Template
While looking at some of the traffic statistics for the MSDN Tester Center, I noticed that a bunch of people arrived at the site as a result of doing a Google search for "test plan template". The primary starting point for a template is really the IEEE standard 829-2008 which breaks apart the various types of documents and goes into detail on what should be present in each. In the Xbox software organization, we've taken the Level Test Plan and tweaked it to better fit our needs, but a (generalized) version of it is posted for your viewing pleasure: Word Template (dotx) or PDF.
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About joshpoley
Josh Poley has been a software tester (SDET) at Microsoft since 1998. He initially worked on the very first version of the Passport authentication service (currently called Windows Live ID). Then, in the spring of 2000, Josh moved over and joined a small handful of people who were starting to work on a project code-named Xbox. His initial responsibilities covered various pieces of the low level operating system (file systems, peripheral communication, etc.). Shortly after the Xbox game console launched in 2001, Josh took over as lead of the Kernel Test Team and remained in charge of validating the core operating system throughout the development and launch of the Xbox 360. Then, in the spring of 2007, Josh joined the Zune group as a Test Architect, where he helped solve various problems across the four main test teams in the organization. After a year in Zune, Josh went back to Xbox to help solve some more hard problems there.
