What is difference between Test plan and Test strategy?

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What is difference between Test plan and Test strategy?

Test plan is a term and a deliverable. Test plan is a document that lists all the activities in a QA project, schedules them, defines the scope of the project, roles & responsibilities, risks, entry & exit criteria, test objective and anything else that you can think of. Test plan is as I like to call a ‘super document’ that lists everything there is to know and need. Please check this link for more information and a sample.
This is also a deliverable and also a document at that. Test strategy outlines the testing approach and everything else that surrounds it. It is different from the test plan, in the sense that a Test strategy is only a sub set of the test plan. It is a hard core test document that is to an extent generic and static. There is also an argument about at what levels test strategy or plan is used- but I really do not see any discerning difference.
Example: Test plan gives the information of who is going to test at what time. For example: Module 1 is going to be tested by “X tester”. If tester Y replaces X for some reason, the test plan has to be updated.
On the contrary, test strategy is going to have details like – “Individual modules are to be tested by test team members. “ In this case, it does not matter who is testing it- so it’s generic and the change in the team member does not have to be updated, keeping it static.

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