Successful Test Management

1 Testing and Test Management.- 2 Risk & Requirement Based Testing.- 3 The Quick Scan.- 4 The Test Management File.- 5 Risk Analysis and Test Strategy.- 6 Estimation.- 7 Planning.- 8 The Test Organisation.- 9 The Dynamics of Testing.- 10 Progress Management.- 11 Issue Management.- 12 Reporting and Advice.- 13 Evaluation and Transfer.- A PRINCE2 and Test Management.- A.1 Similarities Between PRINCE2 and Test Management.- A.2 Position of a Test Project Within a PRINCE2 Project.- A.3 More PRINCE2.- B Checklist of Product Risks.- B.1 Checklist of Product Risks - End Users.- B.2 Checklist of Product Risks - Marketing.- B.3 Checklist of Product Risks - Support Department.- B.4 Checklist of Product Risks - IT Department.- B.5 Checklist of Product Risks - Internal Security.- C Template for Risk- & Requirement-Based Testing.- D Quality Attributes According to ISO9126.- E Template for Test Plan.- E.1 Management Summary.- E.2 Introduction.- E.2.1 Documentation Used.- E.2.2 Standards and Procedures.- E.3 The Test Assignment.- E.3.1 Client.- E.3.2 Supplier.- E.3.3 Goal of the Assignment.- E.3.4 Scope.- E.3.5 Suspension Criteria and Resumption Requirements.- E.3.6 Test Project Deliverables.- E.3.7 Discharging the Test.- E.3.8 Starting Points and Preconditions.- E.3.9 Risks and Risk Countermeasures.- E.4 Test Approach.- E.4.1 Test Strategy.- E.4.2 Preparation.- E.4.3 Analysis.- E.4.4 Test Automation.- E.4.5 Execution and Transfer.- E.5 Planning and Budget.- E.6 Test Organisation.- E.6.1 Stakeholders.- E.6.2 Tasks, Authorities and Responsibilities.- E.6.3 Meetings.- E.6.4 Communication.- E.7 Description of the Test Environment.- E.8 Transfer of Testware to the Organisation.- E.9 Appendices.- F The Goal-Question-Metric (GQM) Method applied to testing.- G Checklist of Project Risks.- G.1 Organisation.- G.2 Test Project.- G.3 Test Team.- G.4 The Selected Test Method.- G.5 The Information System.- G.6 Test Environment(s).- G.7 Automated Testing.- H Template for Test Strategy.- H.1 Management Summary.- H.2 Introduction.- H.2.1 Seven Steps.- H.2.2 Documentation Used.- H.3 Stakeholders and Organisational Structure.- H.3.1 Stakeholders of the System.- H.3.2 Organisational structure.- H.4 Link product risks and quality attributes.- H.4.1 Product risk analysis.- H.4.2 Link product risks and quality attributes.- H.5 Test levels and acceptance criteria.- H.5.1 Test levels.- H.5.2 Acceptance criteria.- H.6 Cluster matrix.- H.7 Cluster cards.- I Testing Roles.- J Template for Progress Report.- K Template for Phase Report.- K.1 Management Summary.- K.2 Test Assignment Test Level.- K.3 Quality of the Information System.- K.3.1 Product Risks and Requirements.- K.3.2 Brief Overview of Issues.- K.3.3 Entry and Exit Criteria.- K.4 Planned Versus Realised.- K.4.1 Time.- K.4.2 Money.- K.4.3 Deliverables.- K.5 Recommendations.- L Template for Final Report.- L.1 Management summary.- L.2 Test assignment.- L.3 Quality of the information system.- L.3.1 Product risks and requirements.- L.3.2 Overview of issues.- L.3.3 Acceptance criteria.- L.4 Costs and benefits of the test project.- L.4.1 Costs in time.- L.4.2 Costs in money.- L.4.3 Benefits of the test project.- L.5 Recommendations.