A ten-minute checklist before every release
You do not need a long test plan to catch the worst surprises. Start with these ten checks.
A long test plan is great, but the checks below catch many of the surprises that hurt most. Run them on staging before you ship.
- Sign up and log in with a brand new account.
- Reset a password end to end, including the email.
- Complete your main purchase or conversion flow.
- Open the billing page and check the numbers.
- Log in as a basic user and confirm what they can and cannot see.
- Check that key emails arrive with the right content and links.
- Look at the most important page on a phone.
- Open an error page and a missing page.
- Re-test whatever changed in this release, and the areas next to it.
- Confirm you know how to roll back.
Turn this into a living checklist for your product. Each time a bug slips through, add one line so it never does again.