9 best practices for Test Management

1. 9 best practices for Test Management

2. Introduction Test management is a comprehensive process involving multiple phases of risk analysis, test estimation, test planning, test organization, test monitoring & control, issues management, and test report & execution. But it has its own share of challenges such as lack of time for testing, lack of required resources, absence of colocated test teams, and ambiguity of test requirements. To ensure the maximum effectiveness of the test management process, it is imperative to overcome these challenges first.  A properly followed test management life cycle consistently helps meet and exceed customer demands in terms of product quality. The race among organizations to reduce the time to market with the best quality products is laying an even greater stress today on such a framework than ever before. Being the center of attention, if followed properly, the process will lead to better products, and thereby more satisfied customers.  Let us understand the best practices to follow for test management: 

3. Test Management recommendations Best practices for Test Management include keeping the test efforts organized with well-defined processes and systems in place. Since different projects may have different specific testing requirements, an effective test management process can deliver a predictable and repeatable process. Such processes are usually easier to estimate and plan, which help the overall management and control of a project.  To overcome the challenges that hinder the implementation of a successful test management environment, organizations may try to use the following well-known practices to implement a successful test management system:  1.Begin the testing activities earlier in the SDLC Even though this is an unsaid rule, few organizations follow it. This leads to bugs being identified at a later stage – which adds on to the costs. The test process, therefore, must begin as soon as a few test cases have been written or if they can be extracted from the initial software requirements. 

4. 2.Perform iterative tests Software testing must be performed iteratively. This risk-based approach helps generate important testing assets and also helps reduce problems going ahead by garnering focus on bugs or any unwelcome delays early on in the cycle.  3.Reuse test assets and improve time spent every time Recycling and reuse of test procedures & test automation objects always help enhance the quality and efficiency  of  a product, and of teams too that can save a lot of time and effort by this simple strategy. However, it requires test management skills to be able to foresee if a certain asset can be reused in the future.  4.Utilize testing and testing strategies based on requirements Different strokes fell different oaks, they say. Similarly, to perform different types of tests, such as agile, security, mobile, big data and analytics, and more, you need to follow different testing approaches that suit the specific kind of test management framework. In other words, try to follow a requirements-based testing approach that not only helps in system/application validation but also helps in calculating the testing efforts needed.  Read Full Blog at: https://www.cigniti.com/blog/remote-patient-monitoring-medical-devices-testing/