What a test plan actually decides
A test plan is a short agreement, not a thick document. It states what is in scope, what is not, which risks matter most, which environments we test on and what has to be true before testing starts and before it can stop. Without those entry and exit rules, testing never finishes, or finishes only when the date arrives.
We start by reading your requirements, designs and any existing tickets, and we raise ambiguities before a single test is run. Many defects are born here: two documents that disagree, or a rule nobody wrote down. Catching them in review costs a conversation. Catching them in production costs a refund.
Next comes risk-based prioritization. Payment, approvals, data import and anything touching money get deeper coverage. A settings page used twice a year gets a lighter pass. The decision you make is how much risk you are willing to carry at launch, and we show the trade-off in plain terms rather than promising that everything will be perfect.
