Introduction to Testing Design
Strategies
As a
reader of this text, you have a goal to learn more about testing and how to
become a good tester. You might be a student at a university who has completed
some software engineering courses. Upon completing your education you would
like to enter the profession of test specialist. Or you might be employed by an
organization that has test process improvement as a company goal. On the other
hand, you may be a consultant who wants to learn more about testing to advise
your clients. It may be that you play several of these roles. You might be
asking yourself, Where do I begin to learn more about testing? What areas of
testing are important? Which topics need to be addressed first? The Testing
Maturity Model provides some answers to these questions. It can serve as a
learning tool, or framework, to learn about testing. Support for this usage of
the TMM lies in its structure. It introduces both the technical and managerial
aspects of testing in a manner that allows for a natural evolution of the
testing process, both on the personal and organizational levels.
In this
chapter we begin the study of testing concepts using the TMM as a learning
framework. We begin the development of testing skills necessary to support
achievement of the maturity goals at levels 2-3 of the Testing Maturity Model.
TMM level 2 has three maturity goals, two of which are managerial in nature.
These will be discussed in subsequent chapters. The technically oriented
maturity goal at level 2 which calls for an organization to institutionalize
basic testing techniques and methods‖
addresses important and basic technical issues related to execution-based
testing. Note that this goal is introduced at a low level of the TMM,
indicating its importance as a basic building block upon which additional
testing strengths can be built. In order to satisfy this maturity goal test
specialists in an organization need to acquire technical knowledge basic to
testing and apply it to organizational projects.
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