Creating test plans and executing testing

In this section, we will deep dive into the most common functional test phases used in the Sales Cloud implementation projects. In Chapter 2, Defining the Approach, we learned how a mature organization might have an overall Test Strategy and Test Plan per project or testing phase, whereas organizations new to application development might have a single Test Plan that they create for their project, combining the information from the Strategy and the Plan.

In this section, we considered the most detailed scenario and reviewed the information that would be included in a Test Plan for each phase, as well as practical execution considerations. Figure 8.1 shows the four types of testing we explore here, how they relate to each other, and how they can either be considered as part of the build or testing phase.

Figure 8.1 – Testing phases with different build approaches

From the figure, you can see the order...