Agile Test Design & Automation of A Life-critical Medical Device

1. Agile Test Design & Automation of A Life-critical Medical Device A Presentation

2. About us

3. Project summary • 700 Man years • Over 11300 pages of specifications/plans • Over xxx pages of test documentation

4. The process TEST

5. Challanges • Stringent Validation and Verification criteria • Constantly changing specifications • Regular releases • Complex application • Small testing team

6. The structure of the app • The application is structured acc. to a number of functional areas (subsystems) e.g. sms/contacts/dialing/set date/set alarm/ snooze alarm etc. • Each subsystem has own requirements

7. Tooling • ReqPro • CQ • CC • HP QC • Excel

8. Process • Req in QC – Req module • TD in QC – Req module • Linked Req+TD • TD using primitives • TC in QC using primitives • Linked TD+TC • Automated TC using same primitives

9. Proces 2 • Supported structured test w. exploratory for each release

10. The trick • From the TD to aTC – think in primitives • Tracing between Req-TD-mTC-aTC

11. A live example of using the prims • Locally installed QC example - LIVE • Change 2 reqs • Change 3-4 TDs – mTCs, - aTCs

12. What it solved • Tracing tells you what to change • Primitives make the test suite flexible

13. What it did not solve • There is no quick fix for the analysis – change in req – requires re-analysis of the req and redesign of TD.