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Software Beta Test Planning Kit
Unify your stakeholders behind a thorough, well-organized test plan with practical tools and best practices in our comprehensive kit.
PDF · 60 pages · November 15, 2018
Many problems that show up mid-test, like low participation and irrelevant feedback, trace back to questions nobody answered during planning. This kit is for quality, support, engineering, program, and product managers who want to answer them early and get everyone behind one plan.
The PDF brings together a planning e-book, a companion guide that walks through a test plan section by section with examples, questions for a strategy session with your stakeholders, and a blank beta test plan template. The guide also covers how to deliver hardware, software, and mobile apps to testers.
What’s inside
Planning with your stakeholders
Why to involve stakeholders early, how to run the strategy session, and how to turn what they care about into clear, focused test objectives.
Topics, activities, and tester numbers
How to break your product into testable topics, give each a weight, and size your tester team to match your objectives.
Distribution and schedule planning
What to line up for shipping hardware, delivering software with keys and distributing mobile apps, plus how to build a realistic test schedule.
Companion guide and plan template
A section-by-section walkthrough of a test plan with examples, plus a blank plan template covering the schedule, budget, stakeholders, recruitment and logistics.
