Develop Test Strategies

The ship criterias should have a significant impact on the test strategy for the product. For example, if the product is an operating system that has to run on multiple hardware platforms, ship criteria that emphasize the number of platforms the product has to run on, and de-emphasize the specific features of the operating system will push your strategy to one of hardware combination testing, not depth-first testing across many features on one particular platform. The test manager does not necessarily develop the entire strategy for testing, but should have input to the strategy, and participate in reviewing the strategy with the test group.