Yesterday, I wrote about how to have a framework for a risk-analysis strategy before the product is developed, and how it’s aligned with architecture and design of the product. When product is yet to be developed, it makes sense to look at it from those considerations, because we can prevent and avoid critical issues while the product is being planned and hence save lots of time, money, effort, and heartburn. But, once the product is built, it’s important to get it tested, for which we need a Software Testing strategy.
You may wonder why you need a risk analysis strategy and a test strategy separately, and whether they are duplicates. They are not. A test strategy not only contains things that are analyzed as risks before the product is built, but also comprehensive and exhaustive scenarios of negative and corner cases that may not have been considered before because there could challenges in analyzing things module-wise, and also things might have been left out during integration between modules and the solution as a whole. More importantly, the testing strategy provides the details on what, how, and when on our approach to testing. Hence it is important to have a thorough test strategy.
A test strategy might contain different things depending on the context of the product that is being tested, but I would have a standard set to make it comprehensive.
Hope that provides a good starting point for your product test strategy! If you need detailed hand-holding for coming up with a Software Testing strategy for your product, feel free to setup time with me to talk. Glad to help!