Improving the Testing Process: A Value Based Approach to Assessing and Enhancing Testing Maturity

This test assessment handbook will allow an organization to assess its own test operation or another’s test operation. This handbook examines the following twelve critical testing processes:
1.Overall Test Process Effectiveness and Efficiency
2.Test Alignment with Project, Process, Product, and Organizational Context
3.Requirements and Quality Risk Analysis
4.Estimation of Test Time and Resources
5.Test Planning
6.Staffing and Developing a Test Team
7.Creating a Test System
8.Test Object Delivery and Test Release Management
9.Test Execution
10.Defect Reporting and Management
11.Test Status Reporting and Management
12.Change Management, Project End-Game, and Product Release/Deployment