Test Charters

Ministry of Testing

Case Study:

Where do you keep your Charters? Just joined a new project and thinking whether to use:

• Confluence? (may become easily outdated / hard to maintain?)

• Jira, storing them per epics? (maybe difficult to gather them?)

• Other suggestions?

Recommendation 1:

I keep all testing documents (including the charts) on Confluence. For me, it’s easy to maintain and anyone can easily find it. I add the link into the ticket because the ticket itself in my context expires really fast and it’s more difficult for me to find and update the ticket comparing to a Confluence page.

-- Ekias Nogueria

Recommendation 2:

I only used TFS/Dev-ops. I created a task/charter template and then made it the child task of whatever Backlog I was testing. That way people could see what I was doing and and I could use it to talk through with the dev's what I had done.

-- Brian Mcroberts

Recommendation 3:

I created charter and session templates in Confluence. It allows me to keep the charters connected to product docs and maintains a history of the sessions that were run.

-- Shawn Conlin