Automation adoption plan:
| Field | Entry |
|---|---|
| Test manager | |
| Area | |
| Linked strategy | Link to the automation strategy from Automation strategy and metrics |
| Linked metrics | Link to Automation strategy and metrics proposal |
| Version and date |
1. Summary
What changes, for whom, and by when.
2. Stakeholders
| Stakeholder | What changes for them | What they need | How we engage them |
|---|---|---|---|
| Testers in the team | |||
| Developers | |||
| Product owners | |||
| Clinical safety officer | |||
| Supplier testers | |||
| Operations |
3. Stages
| Stage | Scope | Entry criteria | Exit criteria | Dates |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Pilot | One product, one team | |||
| Expand | ||||
| Standard practice |
4. Ways of working
- Who writes, reviews, and merges automated tests.
- The definition of done for a story, including automated tests at the right layer.
- How CI failures are triaged and by whom.
- How flaky tests are quarantined, with an owner and a deadline.
5. Supplier testers
- What the contract says about automated testing, and what needs to change.
- How supplier tests meet the same standards: real assertions, specs that agree with code, synthetic data, traceability.
- How supplier test results are received, checked, and kept as evidence.
6. Regulated testing records
- Which products are regulated as medical devices, and their likely class (with the quality lead).
- What the software life cycle requires for testing records (for example under IEC 62304), and how automated test results, CI logs, and traceability matrices meet it.
- How long records are kept, and where.
7. Clinical safety
How automated regression tests become part of the safety case, and how changes to them are reviewed by the clinical safety officer.
8. Measures
Which metrics from the Automation strategy and metrics proposal show that adoption is working, with baseline and target.
9. Risks
| Risk | Likelihood | Impact | Mitigation | Owner |
|---|---|---|---|---|
10. Communication
What is communicated, to whom, when, and how.
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