Business Process Testing Approach And Management – The way forward

The focal point of testing has now shifted to business and the smooth flow of communication between systems. Software solutions are deemed to be a failure if the solution isn’t able to carry out the business process required, even though the solution may be stable. Product requirements detail the features and benefits; the business process details how the business operation is being handled in the organization or in the industry. The software solution should meet both these requirements and the testing should also verify and validate both of them.

Configuration management for test professionals –CMMI® Way!

Establishing and maintaining the integrity of work products during the lifecycle of the product using configuration management (CM) has always been a challenge. Amazingly, after so many years of having the software engineering discipline, CM still remains an area for improvement for most organizations early in the process maturity journey. Configuration management process is a key influencing step in the testing phase of SDLC, for the quality of delivered product. This tutorial discusses Configuration management as it applies to test projects/test phases of SDLC leveraging CMMI® Validation, Verification and Configuration Management process areas.

Let’s Play Scrum with our Testing teams

SCRUM - It's About Common Sense

Scrum is an agile, lightweight process that can be used to manage and control software and product development using iterative, incremental practices. Scrum significantly increases productivity and reduces time to benefits while facilitating adaptive, empirical systems development. Through its principles and practices, Scrum challenges fundamental assumptions about roles, teams, process, and planning. Over the last several years, Scrum has grown in popularity due to its overall simplicity and straight forwardness.

This tutorial is more about applying Scrum practices and attributes within our testing teams. The topics covered in this tutorial are:

Basics of Scrum
Attributes and terminologies of Scrum
Applying Scrum in Testing
Building a Scrum Testing Team – experience sharing

Pre-Conference Tutorial at Management – a STeP-IN SUMMIT 2006 (January 2006)
Baiju Joseph - Quality Assurance Manager, Ariba Technologies.

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Speaker Background

Baiju Joseph is a Quality Assurance Manager with Ariba Technologies, leading provider of Spend Management solutions. He has 13+ years of IT experience . Baiju has delivered talks on Agile testing in test conferences and industry forums. He has published articles on Agile Testing in leading IT magazines. Prior to Ariba, Baiju has experience working with Novell Software System test team and the Ministry of Information & Broadcasting . He holds a B Tech in Electronics and Communication Engineering and an M.S. in Software Systems from BITS, Pilani.

Scrum QA Assessment

An Agile product group that is self-managed and self-organizing, proud of its ability to respond quickly to emergent conditions without pausing its workflow, may feel that it does not need processes for assessment of capability and maturity such as are provided in formal frameworks for continuous improvement such as CMM-SW or TSP. Actually every group addresses them, formally or informally, effectively or poorly. The question is how to address them effectively. This paper presents a way for assessing QA capability and maturity within the time and resource limits of Agile project management.