levo
Log inStart

Design, Development and Testing

The purpose and components of a test plan

  • 3 things to know
  • AS Unit 1

Overview

Test plan, expected result of a test and test log.

What you need to know

Answer each one before you reveal it.

Your recallNot started
Key term

What is a test plan?

Key term

Name six components of a typical test plan.

Key term

What further columns are often added beyond the expected and actual results?

Questions from this subtopic

Each one with the model answer underneath.

  1. 1

    What is a test plan?

    Model answer

    A test plan is a document setting out every test to be carried out on a system, the data each test uses and the result each one is expected to produce.

  2. 2

    State two purposes of a test plan.

    Model answer

    A test plan makes sure every requirement is tested rather than only the parts a tester happens to think of, and it provides a record that the testing was actually done.

  3. 3

    Why is a test plan written before the tests are run?

    Model answer

    Deciding the expected result in advance forces the tester to work from the requirement, so a wrong output cannot afterwards be accepted as though it had been intended.

  4. 4

    Name six components of a typical test plan.

    Model answer

    A test plan records a test number, a description of the test, the test data used, the type of that data, the expected result and the actual result.

  5. 5

    What further columns are often added beyond the expected and actual results?

    Model answer

    A test plan often adds the action taken when a test fails, the date of the test, the name of the tester, and a reference to the requirement being proved.

  6. 6

    Why does each test carry a unique number?

    Model answer

    A unique number lets a fault report, a correction and a re-test all refer to the same test without ambiguity, and lets other documents cross-refer to it.

See the rest and revise

Other ways to work this

The same content, four other ways.

What is inside Levo

Six ways to work the same material.

1Closed book
2Open book
3Closed book

The 3-step method, run for you

Answer cold, learn it, then prove it stuck. Levo tracks the jump between your first attempt and your last.

Systems Analysis and Development Approaches
Design, Development and Testing
Implementation and System Security
Programming

Cram a whole paper in one sitting

Sort every topic into what you know and what you do not, then drill only the weak ones.

A check requires a value.
presencerangeformat

Blank Blitz makes facts automatic

Rapid timed gap-fills on the terms and numbers you need to recall without thinking.

ANormal data is 12, which should be accepted.
BBoundary data is 1 and 50, which should be accepted.
C0 and 51, just outside the limits, should be rejected.

Build It gets the exam shape right

Assemble a full-mark answer from its marking points, in the order an examiner wants them.

One byte is made up of 8 bits.
TrueFalse

Test It catches misconceptions

Spot the fault in a statement. The traps are the mistakes students actually make.

721941163128510

Brain Breaks between sessions

Short focus games to reset attention, so the next set lands better than the last.

Every question in Design, Development and Testing, on a schedule.

Attempt a question from memory, write the correct version, then attempt it again. Levo records the jump between your first attempt and your last, and brings each question back on the day you are due to forget it.

Start revising, £5 a monthSee how the method works

Or £46 a year, about £3.83 a month. Cancel anytime.