Test plans to be written according to design spec?

Question

Hi, Is not it unusual? It seems that I should write the test plans just by the interface design spec but it is not telling much. Is there any approach that could be used here or I simply cannot produce any relieble tests based just on that? Thanks

Answer 1

I would say its not possible to write test plan based on just design specification. However, V-model says for each item (on the left) there is a equivavelent on the "test" (right) side but I think it is not considered to be a test plan.

If you have just a brief design draft of the system, what would you test? Of course, something can be "tested" - if the design says it is connected to SQL, you can test that the connection is being established and alive but to me it does not seem worthy..