Templates - Covering entire SDLC

I have seen testers, in various interviews, and in testing conferences, in forums and blogs, looking for good templates to manage their test cases, test plans. While I am a firm believer that necessity is the mother of all inventions, some may be constrained in the process of invention, be it lack of time or support or skills. That is when we can look for a stable platform on which we customize and build our own.

As for the software engineering, from the project conception to delivery and beyond, we use lots of documentation. If you do not have any templates to start with and customize, you can look at Readyset open templates. http://readyset.tigris.org/

While I warn you that this may not fit your needs as-is, you can rest assured that these will satisfy your requirements mostly, and with little customizations, you should have a near-perfect documentation for all your activities.

I don't want to paste the content, the landing page http://readyset.tigris.org/ is very informative and will help you understand. If you are like me, wanting to jump straight at the product, http://readyset.tigris.org/nonav/templates/frameset.html.

You have a download option as well.

This will be of use to
- New Startups, wanting to setup good processes & documentation
- Good starting point of all software engineers wanting to document it right
- Good place for fresh engineers to understand the templates, and think and learn why each of them is required, and why each of the content is relevant.

My 2 cents :)