In my last series of posts I spoke about why test process improvement is important and how it helps organisations. In this series, I’d like to talk about the test process improvement framework, Test Maturity Model integration (TMMi) and how we use that to effect test process improvement. Any test process improvement framework must provide […]
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Calculating ROI for test process improvement
There are numerous ways of working out the potential, and actual, financial benefits of implementing test process improvements. Here we show one way, based on the method Experimentus uses and for a TMMi driven initiative.
Benefits of test process improvement
Test process improvement benefits can be broken down into direct and indirect types. Sometimes the indirect benefits are larger, or more important, than the direct ones, so they should not be ignored. It is well worth taking into account the indirect benefits when the overall value of an improvement program is being calculated.
Why is test process improvement necessary?
Typical reasons for conducting test process improvement In the first of a short series of blogs on test process improvement, we look at why test process improvement is vital to the evolution of an organisation’s practices. There are several reasons why test process improvement is needed. For a start, many organisations have tough business objectives, […]
Black-box test design in Agile
In the final post of a series of blogs on Testing in Agile, featuring excerpts from our ISTQB Foundation Agile Tester course, we discuss how Black-box test techniques apply in an Agile context where people often assume they only apply to sequential methodologies. In Agile projects tests are often created by testers in parallel with […]
