Test Management - Test Assessment & Consulting Services
“Gone are the days when application development and delivery teams could cavalierly ask the business to pick two: cost, time, or quality. The business wants and needs all three. Delivery teams have responded by experimenting with or adopting Agile development practices, choosing fit-to-purpose development platforms, and designing application architectures for faster change. Now it is time for quality management and testing to respond to this faster-moving environment. Functional testing tools are not enough. Quality must move beyond the purview of just the testing organization and must become an integrated part of the entire software development life cycle (SDLC) to reduce schedule-killing rework, improve user satisfaction, and reduce the risks of untested non functional requirements such as security and performance. To achieve this balance of cost, time, and quality, application development organizations must spread a focus on good testing practices across every role. These new requirements have motivated vendors to provide tools that support every role, considerably broadening the testing tools landscape.”
Forrester Research, 2010
NTT Data Vertex’s Goals to Test Assessment
Identify strengths, and gaps in order to improve organizational capability in:
- Testing Processes
- User satisfaction
- Testing effectiveness & efficiency
- Management satisfaction
- Better understand and reduce risks
Tester Competencies
- Testing skills & knowledge
- Test execution & tool knowledge
- Test reporting & analysis
Use of Testing Tools
- Increased reliability and repeatability of test results
- Reduced testing effort
- Meaningful and accurate testing metrics to support management decisions
NTT DATA Vertex Software - Test Assessment Process
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Discovery & Assessment |
Gap Analysis |
Report & Recommendations |
- Confirm scope - work schedule, activities and deliverables
- Identify assessment participants and decision makers
- Discuss information sharing methods
- Produce detailed schedule of interviews and interview questions
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- Interview and understand business challenges and expectations from Management team
- Conduct on-site information gathering through interviews and questionnaires with testing and project teams
- Review and assess all existing test process, artifacts, tools, metrics, etc.
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- Assess gaps to industry best practices and peer group
- Determine organizational maturity level (1-5) in various testing domains
- Provide goals and examples of how to close gaps and mature capability
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- Produce final report; provide detailed recommendations for:
- Assess recommendations based on cost and return; highlights quick hits
- Present findings to Management team
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NTT DATA Vertex Test Assessment Focus Reporting Areas
- Testing Organization
- Governance
- Staff Competencies & Tool Knowledge
- Career Path & Training
Process
- Methodology, Test Phases, Templates,
- Requirements Management, Risk Management, Test Planning & Management
- Communication, Issue Resolution, Entrance/Exit Criteria,
- Defect Management, Test Analysis & Reporting, Process Improvement
Test Tools & Environment
- Test Environment
- Change and Configuration Management
- Test Data Management
- Testing Management Tools & Metrics
- Test Automation Tools
- Performance & Specialty Tools
NTT DATA Vertex Test Assessment Deliverables
- Detailed report of findings and recommendations
- Executive Summary
- Testing Domain Maturity Assessment
- Summary of most Critical Success Factors for improvement
- Relative cost and return assigned to recommendations to identify quick hits and build road map
Accompanying presentation material
- Executive recap of findings and recommendation of next steps
Development tool/platform experience:
- W2K, W2K3, AIX, HP-UX, Solaris, Linux, MVS, z/OS
- SQL 2000, SQL 2005, Oracle 8.x, 9.x, 10.x, MySQL, DB2
- Java, J2EE, Visual Studio .NET
- WebLogic, WebSphere, Apache/Tomcat, IIS 5.0 & 6.0, IBM MQSeries, Vitria, Citrix, VmWare
- SAP, Siebel, Peoplesoft, Oracle, Amdocs, Ariba
Please contact us for more inforamtion about our Software Testing Services:
Jorrit Wit
Director, Marketing
Global Testing Center of Excellence
NTT DATA Vertex Software Inc.
130 King St. West, Exchange Tower, Suite 3660
Toronto, Ontario, M5X 1E2
Phone: 1-888-813-2047
Fax: (888) 899-1061
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