Test Process Improvement

Our test process improvement service is a way for our consultants to provide a skills transfer from our company to yours - we use our expertise to help you improve yours. This can be as simple as conducting test strategy reviews and offering recommendations for improvement, through to establishing a formal test process improvement program and working with you to implement the improvements.

Why improve your test process?

So that testing plays an active role in ensuring that a quality product is being developed
To help reduce time to market by establishing efficient practices for documenting tests, testing software and providing feedback
To focus testing activities so that product functionality is consistently and effectively evaluated

What can we do for you?

Assessments: Do an assessment of your current practices and produce a report with an action plan.
Improvement Plan: Develop a Test Process Improvement Plan to define a formal process improvement strategy.
Test process guidelines: Develop test process guidelines and tailor our IV&V toolkit of templates and checklists to suit your technical and organizational needs.
Mentoring: Work directly with a few projects to help implement the processes.
Training: Train project staff in a tailored version of our end-to-end testing methodology.

What does our test process improvement model contain?

We help companies improve their testing processes using our test process improvement model, which contains:

Five maturity definitions
A set of 16 key test process areas (TPAs), with identified goals for each maturity level
An assessment checklist
A method of graphing maturity levels for each TPA
A Test Maturity Report template
A Test Process Improvement Plan template.