24-Jun-2019
Test Management For Large Scale Projects
By Deepak Arora
24-Jun-2019
By Deepak Arora
The major purpose of this document is to provide a set of application software test management guidelines to ensure that computer systems are adequately tested to pursue reliable and quality computer systems.
Also, this document is to give a set of guidelines for reference by application project teams on the planning and carrying out of testing activities for application software. It is important that users of this document (i.e. application project teams) should not treat these guidelines as mandatory standards, but as a reference model; and should adopt the guidelines according to individual project’s actual situation. This document is suitable for development projects following the SDLC, which is defined in the Information Systems Procedures Manual. As for the maintenance projects, these guidelines may need to be adjusted according to the projects’ actual situation. Such adjustments will be the responsibility of individual project team. It is intended that the guidelines would apply to both in-house-developed and outsourced software development projects.
A project organization is set up to champion, manage and execute an IT project. Members of the project organization include the Project Owner, Project Steering Committee (PSC), Project Assurance Team (PAT), Internal Project Manager (IPM) and Business Analyst (BA). The PSC champions the project and is the ultimate decision-maker for the project. It provides steer and support for the IPM and endorses acceptance of project deliverables. The IPM manages the project and monitors the project implementation on a day-to-day basis for the Project Owner/the PSC. The PAT is responsible for overseeing project progress and managing quality assurance activities, which include: (a) recommending the test plans, test specifications and test summary report for endorsement by the PSC; and (b) co-coordinating, monitoring and resolving priority conflicts on the testing activities to ensure the smooth running of testing activities.
A Test Group can be set up to carry out the testing activities, especially for large-scale projects or projects involving a large number of users. The emphasis here is on the independent role of the Test Group, which does not mean dedicated resources. The necessity of an independent Test Group should be determined at the project initialization stage through an assessment based on project complexity, criticality, implementation schedule and other risks. The type(s) of testing to be performed independently and the high-level estimation of additional resources, if required, should be determined and planned for respectively as early as possible.
The following points should be noted when conducting testing:
Due to the demands on improving the quality of IT projects, third-party independent testing is recommended to ensure that system functions are completed in good quality. Independent testing may include various kinds of testing, e.g. unit test, functional test, regression test, integration test, load test, accessibility test, and usability test, etc. The independent Test Group conducts testing for the system to reveal defects which cannot be found by the project team, which improves the quality of the system in fulfilling project or business needs without any biases. Independent Test Group sometimes engages professional software testers to perform testing according to internationally recognized standards and methodologies which ensure the quality of testing in conformance to requirements of the project or business.
The independent Test Group conducts testing for the system to reveal defects which cannot be found by the project team, which improves the quality of the system in fulfilling project or business needs without any biases. Independent Test Group sometimes engages professional software testers to perform testing according to internationally recognized standards and methodologies which ensure the quality of testing in conformance to requirements of the project or business.
We at BugRaptors have a team of professionals for Test Management of Large projects as well as small Projects. Our team follows the best industry accepted Test criteria for test Management to ensure that the quality of the software is not compromised.
Deepak Arora
Deepak, a certified QA engineer associated with BugRaptors. He is well versed with Manual testing, Mobile application testing, Regression and Sanity testing. He is responsible for guaranteeing a level of quality for the end client and to help the software development team to identify problems early in the process.
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