What is the next step? Where do we go from here? In assessing the goals and returns of a quality test team, we need to assess several important areas.

• Are company quality goals being met?
• Are customers finding more critical bugs than you are?
• Are QA/test teams delivering on-time?
• Is communication/information available to the right people at the right time?
• Are QA and Development working together or against each other?
• Are test metrics available so timely/appropriate project decisions can be made?
• Efficiency, process maturity

FilAm Software Technology can provide experienced quality management to assist in these difficult assessments:

• Test Planning
  • Planning for small projects, features, to large releases
  • "Lite-weight" for efficiency & agility to large-scale, detailed planning
  • Bottom-up and/or top-down
  • Waterfall & agile methodologies
   
• Testcase Assessment
  • Assessment of existing tests
  • Recommendation for testcase development direction
    • Based on costs or time, accounting for test team size
   
• Testcase Development
  • Creation of new tests
    • Targeted, critical tests
    • Balanced tests with emphasis on:
      • Time
      • Testing across multiple builds
    • "Complete" coverage
   
• Test Coverage
  • Assessment of existing test coverage
  • Recommendation for test development to maximize test coverage
   
• Test Metrics
  • Future development
  • System to deliver test related information to management
  • Recommendations based on cost and time to implement
  • Development of metrics system