kata-test-plan-design

To map acceptance criteria to test levels, you distribute behavioral rules across unit tests, persistence and external contracts across integration tests, and critical user journeys across e2e tests. This ensures domain correctness and real boundary behavior are both captured.

Designing a test plan for idempotency and dependency failures involves expanding each acceptance criteria with mandatory negative, edge, and replay behavior scenarios. This approach explicitly documents risks and coverage gaps to prevent misaligned testing effort.

Defining coverage targets requires setting tier-based measurable expectations for minimum coverage and mutation scores. This structures your testing strategy by prioritizing critical paths and domain rules while intentionally deferring lower-risk areas like e2e UI flows.

You need a separate test plan artifact when translating feature acceptance criteria into actionable testing strategies. Generating a structured markdown file captures the AC to level mapping, required tools, fixtures, and containers needed for execution.

Yes, this test strategy approach applies to multi-endpoint flows and external contract testing by mapping integration tests to repository behavior and cross-service data persistence paths. It ensures complex interactions are validated without over-testing UI layers.

Test coverage misses critical edge cases when acceptance criteria are not expanded with mandatory scenario coverage. Explicitly adding known errors, idempotency, and dependency failure modes to your test plan prevents under-testing domain rules and boundary behavior.