ABSTRACT
This chapter describes the planning activities in the Quality Planning phase. Working with the project manager, the test project manager addresses the following planning objectives: When testing activities, cost, and schedule are planned without the benefit of the test manager's input, the overall project schedule rarely includes a realistic timeline for the testing efforts. The PMI divides Project Quality Management into three major processes commonly shown as follows: The Project Quality Management processes are integrated into the phases of the Project Framework described in the previous section. The number of test conditions/cases, and the time to prepare the scripts constitute the major part of the test-planning activity. The work effort to execute the scope of testing-the time required to prepare the test plan, publish the test strategy, and review the deliverables-adds to the test-planning effort. The critical activities for effort estimation involving functional testing are defined in the model.
