# Ask Me Anything: Test Strategies

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**Created:** [31 March 2020 19:01 UTC](https://club.ministryoftesting.com/t/ask-me-anything-test-strategies/36305 "2020-03-31T19:01:01Z")\
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**Post date:** [4 April 2020 16:52 UTC](https://club.ministryoftesting.com/t/ask-me-anything-test-strategies/36305/19 "2020-04-04T16:52:02Z")

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> [@heather\_reid](#):
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> 1. The definition says that Test Plan is derived from Software Requirements Specification (SRS). How would you suggest to create the Plan in case of the absence of the SRS?

First let’s talk about the difference between a test plan and a test strategy. To me a test strategy is a set of ideas (not a document) to guide your testing. This is not a plan. A test plan is the set of ideas that guide your test project. A Test Plan is the sum of logistics (the set of ideas that guide your application of resources to fulfilling the test strategy) and the strategy. Michael Bolton wrote a blog post about this titled “[What Should A Test Plan Contain?](https://www.developsense.com/blog/2008/12/what-should-test-plan-contain/)” almost 12 years ago.

What definition says that? I googled it and found several websites that made me sad. On those pages I read that a test strategy is a high level document. They talk about a strategy being generic requirements for testing or how to test on an organisational level. I am talking about something completely different here! Please remember what Rikard Edgren said in his fabulous tutorial "[Test Strategy - Next Level](http://thetesteye.com/presentations/Edgren_Tutorial_TestStrategyNextLevel.pdf). It is in the combination of WHAT and HOW you find the real strategy. If you separate the WHAT and the HOW, it becomes general and quite useless.

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