Does Test Planning & Management support or hinder you?

It is often said that if we fail to plan then we plan to fail. As none of us set out to fail, we must embrace test planning and management for all software testing programmes as it is a vital link in your success dependency chain.

But there are many challenges in understanding and implementing good test management practices, such as:

• Why should I test?
• What should I test?
• Where do I test?
• When and how often should I test?
• How do I test?
• How should I manage my testing?
• I’ve too much to test and not enough time to do it!

If you need help or advice on test planning or test management please email planning@testing-solutions.com or call us on +44 (0) 20 7469 1500

How can TSG help me in terms of Test Planning & Management?

TSG is experienced in test planning and test management for organizations and testing programmes of all sizes, so we understand that any methods and controls used must be scalable and meet the needs of each individual customer. We can help you build the manual test management processes that can be automated through the use of testing tools later on. Whether manual or automated, TSG partners with its clients to implement or work with existing test management processes to:

• Build or help you build test plans that are rigorous and tailored to meet the specific needs of your testing programmes, budget and timescales.
• Identify, profile and manage risk
• Identify and build the right test cases that exercise and prove if the system meets specified phase level and overall acceptance criteria
• Build the information traceability you require to manage testing progress through each software testing life cycle stage;
• Work within traditional, v-model or agile software testing life cycles

More than that, the test management process will ensure that the test cases we build with you with are fit for purpose, targeted on risk reduction and mitigation, traceable to requirements and demonstrably meet the needs of your business.

What benefits might I expect?

Good test planning and test management will yield dividends and give you a positive return on your investment:

• The method to manage your testing projects to a successful conclusion
• The controls to manage your progress, quality and checkpoints to build success along the way
• An iterative test approach that produces valuable testing artifacts and results early on to help manage risk
• Predictable, repeatable and reusable test materials for use in regression testing
• Metrics and measures to show completeness

Whether based on testing tools or a manual approach, the key to test planning and test management for us is providing you the information traceability and risk profiling you need to make informed and balanced decisions based on fact

At TSG, we firmly believe that time, cost and quality can be achieved, and that with the right risk based test planning and management you should not have to sacrifice any of these 3 key imperatives.

TSG also offers a software testing consultancy service