Best Practices for Test Plan

Effective Test Plans ensure reliable, scalable, and predictable automation at both feature and release levels. By applying best practices, teams can structure plans that maintain stability, reduce execution overhead, and provide accurate regression insights across devices and environments. These guidelines help organizations design Test Plans that are modular, maintainable, execution-efficient, and aligned with CI/CD and release workflows.

Recommended Best Practices for using Test Plan:

1. Keep test cases atomic Test Plans, not test cases, should represent end-to-end flows

2. Use clear naming conventions Example:

   1. Login_Flow

   2. Checkout_Regression

   3. Payment_Sanity

3. Leverage Modules for repetitive steps Avoid copy-pasting long sequences.

4. Group related test cases together Example: All Cart flows in one plan, all Payment flows in another.

5. Use consistent device configurations Prevent run-to-run variability.

6. Run via CI/CD for maximum reliability Manual dashboard runs are great for debugging, but pipelines ensure scale.

7. Review failed steps regularly Helps maintain stability over long-term automation cycles.