Strategy documents you can download, edit and put your own name on. They exist because the hardest part of getting an automated testing layer working is rarely the tool — it is agreeing, in writing, what you test, why, and who owns a red result.
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Every template here carries the same spine, so a team that fills in more than one ends up with a single coherent story rather than several documents that disagree:
what you test manually today → tracing it to requirements → which flows are genuinely critical → which of those are good automation candidates → what stays manual on purpose.
The four documents
| Master Test Strategy | The parent document. What is in scope, what you test today, how tests trace to requirements, your critical journeys, what you automate and what stays manual, test levels and owners, environments and data, entry and exit criteria, and how you will know it is working. |
| Integration Test Strategy | The seams between systems — which ones exist, what each test proves, the contracts you are relying on, how to handle systems you do not control, and how to carry a value from one system to the next without building something brittle. |
| Regression Test Strategy | The largest repeated effort in most organizations. Tiering, what goes in the suite, a flake policy with teeth, who reads a red result and by when, and a quarterly pruning routine. |
| User Acceptance Test Strategy | What UAT is and is not, entry criteria strict enough to protect your scarcest people, scenarios written in the language of the job, defects versus change requests, sign-off, and how to feed UAT back into automation so it shrinks each release. |
Where to start
If you are starting from nothing, fill in the Master Test Strategy first, and only sections 2, 4 and 5 — what you test today, your critical journeys, and what you automate. That is an afternoon, and it is most of the value. The rest can follow.
If you already have a strategy, use section 5 of the master document as a worksheet against your existing suite. It is common to discover that the tests you have and the journeys you care about are not the same list.
Running an SAP S/4HANA transformation?
There is a dedicated set for that, further down this same section: the strategy plus TUT, FUT, SIT and UAT plans, written for the phasing and the systems-integrator split those programs actually use, and honest about which SAP screens a browser can and cannot drive.