Though quite a few people misinterpret the statement of Agile Manifesto that promotes responding to change over following a plan, among others careful test planning is an integral and hardly avoidable part of the software testing process. Of course just like other aspects of software engineering it has gone through a major facelift.

Let’s rethink the test planning process and the test plan itself. Let’s consider different platforms to store it, structure it differently, embed data from different sources, turn it to a living document (a place people revisit frequently), and turn it to a communication platform.