Guideline: Tips - Determine The Planning (AST)

When planning resources, indicate from which point it is no longer possible to accommodate imminent overrun by deploying extra people. Sometimes an environment is so complex or specific that an ‘extra hand’ will no longer gain time. It is not pleasant to have to explain this when the moment has already arrived and the project leader is already busily engaged in arranging extra people for the test team – even less so when those extra people are already being introduced to the team…

Suspend- and resume criteria

In some, particularly formally set up, tests, so-called suspend- and resume criteria may be defined in the plan. These criteria indicate under which circumstances the testing is temporarily suspended and then resumed. Examples of suspend criteria are that testing has to stop when a particular infrastructural component is not available, or if a test-blocking defect is found. A resume criterion may be that with the lifting of the suspend criterion the testing of the system part /function/component has to take place entirely anew.