Of all the aspects of testing, preparing test data is probably the most time consuming and tedious. It is however, one the most important parts. If your test data isn't correctly prepared and doesn't tie in with your test plan then you are immediately at a disadvantage. Valuable time can be wasted examining code for bugs, when in fact it is the data that is at fault. So how can you make life easier for yourself?

 Apologies for the delay in publishing the next part of the testing series, it's been a busy few months  It's finally here though and the next parts should be coming soon...

Whereas Functional Testing test plans are generated from the Requirements documents, Structural Testing Test Plans are generated from the application itself.

Whilst there will always be a significant amount of overlap between the two test plans(Functional and Structural), both should still be created as there are differences in the types of errors captured by each.