VDE test plan — the rule tree his workbook states

A plan is three things: the questions the operator must answer, the look-and-try steps with the question each one asks, and the measurements — each taken at every point the workbook names, with the one limit that judges it.

The rules drawn as the tree they form. A box asks one question, a branch carries one answer to it, and every path ends in the whole plan a device with those answers receives — visual check, functional check and every measurement, in the order the workbook gives them. The questions are split into the answers the model lists, so one answer is one branch and a path is one kind of device. The last question is the operator's own: how he connects the device — one branch per button his instrument offers for that sequence, as the operator_actions_at_start sheet states them. That choice adds and removes nothing from the plan; it decides which measurements he can reach, and one he cannot reach is struck through. Point at any step and the panel names the branch that put it there, the rule row it comes from, and which button does reach it. Drag the small map to move around; nothing here can be edited.

asks one question a check a measurement out of reach of the chosen connection every path ends in a whole plan — never a part of one