Every development organization has a test and quality assurance process -- whether it is an efficient one is a different story.  A test team may be saddled with outdated processes from a previous generation of products, lacking a mechanism that encourages continuous improvements in test methodology.  Or, a comprehensive QA roadmap may be absent altogether. 

Previous efforts to systematically measure the efficiency and maturity of a QA/test organization have been largely academic exercises, difficult to apply to real world software development environments. 

Today, however, new methods are available that enable product developers to assess and improve their quality assurance and test processes, without interfering with day-to-day production demands, using well established frameworks such as the Testing Maturity Model  index.

This white paper examines the fresh techniques for assessing the effectiveness of QA organizations.   Whether an organization has a dedicated testing team or not, today’s testing is being completed more and more often by product managers, business analysts, customers, and programmers in addition to traditional testers.  Evaluating all of these testing practices through a unified lens, using a maturity scoring scale that looks at all key testing responsibilities and functions, can be accomplished with the application of tried and true assessment frameworks.  Then a record of QA/testing strengths and weaknesses can be drafted with a proscribed improvement plan that has buy-in from all product development stakeholders.

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