1)Obtain requirements, functional design, and internal design specifications and other necessary documents
2)Obtain budget and schedule requirements
3)Determine project-related personnel and their responsibilities, reporting requirements, required standards and processes (such as release processes, change processes, etc.)
4)Identify application's higher-risk aspects, set priorities, and determine scope and limitations of tests
5)Determine test approaches and methods - unit, integration, functional, system, load, usability tests, etc.
6)Determine test environment requirements (hardware, software, communications, etc.)
7)Determine Test ware requirements (record/playback tools, coverage analyzers, test tracking, problem/bug tracking, etc.)
8)Determine test input data requirements
9)Identify tasks, those responsible for tasks, and labor requirements
10)Set schedule estimates, timelines, milestones
11)Determine input equivalence classes, boundary value analyses, error classes
12)Prepare test plan document and have needed reviews/approvals
13)Write test cases
14)Have needed reviews/inspections/approvals of test cases
15)Prepare test environment and Testware, obtain needed user manuals/reference documents/configuration guides/installation guides, set up test tracking processes, set up logging and archiving processes, set up or obtain test input data
16)Obtain and install software releases
17)Perform tests
18)Evaluate and report results
19)Track problems/bugs and fixes
20)Retest as needed
21)Maintain and update test plans, test cases, test environment, and Testware through life cycle