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3. Strategy: levels & types
Test Planning & Strategy · 36 pages source format
Unit, integration, API, UI, exploratory, a11y, security, performance — choose the cheapest level that finds the risk.
What you'll learn
- Test pyramid judgment
- Shift-left/right
- Who owns what
Level map
For your feature, assign risks to levels. Avoid “everything in E2E.”
- Unit — logic & pure functions
- API/contract — integrations
- UI E2E — critical journeys only
- Exploratory — unknowns & UX
- Prod checks — monitoring / synthetics
Do this now
Draw a simple pyramid/map with example tests at each level.
Clear?