ABSTRACT
One of the simplest ways to lower the cost of testing is to avoid unnecessary testing and testing-related tasks. A nimble test plan is a point of departure from which non-technical executives begin to learn those things about the application that they wish to know and those things that they have not even considered but may find valuable. A nimble test plan gets good ideas by borrowing from many different disciplines as required by the changing needs of the customer, not necessarily adhering to all of the tenets of any of them. Agile is a software-specific theology focused on providing rapid and continuous value to the customer in a software development environment. The Agile concept of deliver value to the customer is really at the heart of what non-technical executives should be seeking to do as testers, and in their nimble test plan they want to document how they are going to deliver that value quickly.
