Prabu Chelladurai, Polaris Software Lab Canada
Timely delivery of high quality software within budget is no more a nicety; but a necessity. Software testing, with a significant stake in enabling it, compels enterprises to focus on its improvement. However, the volatile nature of today’s enterprises triggered by various factors like recession, attrition, technology change, competition and diverse culture impede any improvement effort and make the course and postimplementation of improvement feel more fragile than agile.
This paper details a framework named STEP (Software Test Enhancement Paradigm) that provides ample and adoptable guidance towards improving and fortifying software testing. This proven framework has been enriched with best practices from industry standard frameworks like CMMi, TMM, TMMi, and TPI. This paper also outlines nine proven cost effective solutions based on technology and software process [with a case study] to remove fragility and induce agility in the journey of software test improvement. These aspects blended with STEP’s unique ability to accommodate 2 flavors of test process improvement: Staged & Continuous and granularly calibrated measurement of maturity enable easier adoption, focused improvement, quicker realization of ROI thereby guaranteed Delivery of Quality!
Prabu Chelladurai, 2011 Technical Paper, Abstract, Paper, Slides
