How to Create a Master Test Plan for Your DWH/BI Project
In the domain of agile and data warehouse project testing, a DW Master Test Plan (MTP) is often considered an out-dated practice - even unnecessary. With this viewpoint, project teams may overlook long-standing motives and rationale for a project-wide DW MTP.
A DW “Master Test Plan” represents the plan of action and processes designed to accomplish quality assurance from beginning to end of a DW development life cycle. The document describes all planned testing for each SDLC phase and how QA will be managed across all levels of testing (ex., unit, component, integration, system testing, etc.). The MTP provides a high-level view of the quality assurance policies and strategies to be implemented (based on IEEE Standard 829).
