Our Test Process Assessment is an unbiased evaluation of your company’s methods, tools, practices, organizational structure, and environment used to test a software product / project. It is designed to help IT organizations benchmark their practices with industry standard models and frameworks like TPI, TMM, or TMMI. The objective of an assessment is to identify the highest-priority areas for improvement and to recommend a step-by-step plan for making those improvements. The scope and formality of the assessment will depend on your organization’s size and needs.

The logic behind our assessment is to guide an organization to focus on sustained improvement leading to defect prevention in alignment with the state of art practice in the industry. Firstly, we evaluate the organization’s capabilities vis-à-vis the industry best practice using a reference framework. Initial impetus is to bring the organization’s capability at par with the recommended industry best practice. In the second stage, we align the practice to create a sustained differentiation, and build a culture of continuous improvement. This is enabled through process definition, training, implementation, and building structured interventions for ensuring continuous improvement. With this approach, we build capability and capacity required for the organization to demonstrate and take benefit of the future best practice envisaged.

ETI provides assurance and assessment services to measure the maturity of an organization's Verification and Validation processes against Software Engineering Institute's, CMM® Integrated (CMMI®). Specific to Testing, and QA, ETI also supports assessments against the reference framework of Test Process Improvement (TPI); and TMMi from TMMI Foundation. The assessment primarily covers 04 Testing domains, 11 Testing Sub Domains, 40 Focus Improvement Areas, and 213 practices for Testing. The process assessment framework is aligned to TMMI, CMMI, TPI, and TMM standards.

A typical assessment follows three steps:

Familiarization with Existing Processes, Organization, Technology and Objectives
ETI conducts a documentation review of process and project documents (e.g. test process documentation and sample test designs and plans), a description of the current plan for testing with stated objectives, key milestones, timelines and status, and a list of interview candidates (with assignment descriptions) for the assessment.

Internal and External Interviews
Using our proprietary assessment questionnaire we conduct a survey of all candidate projects in scope to evaluate the need for a physical validation. Subsequently, a senior consultant selects projects in the scope and interviews people within the test team (and those who are “customers” of the team; e.g. marketing, product management and customers) to understand existing people, process and technology capabilities and the issues and objectives in improving the existing environment. From these meetings, ETI will develop an overview of the client’s needs, a recommended set of critical improvements, metrics, and actions that can immediately be implemented within key project teams.

Immediate and Long Term Improvement Plan
ETI provides feedback and suggestions to management on recommended changes and improvements, giving priority weighting to those of near term value. ETI presents its findings and recommendations to senior management and discusses opportunities for improvement in skill levels and process and technology capabilities. An overview of what’s required to achieve the client’s stated goals will be presented. ETI outlines the overall requirements and cost for doing such an effort.
Our test process Assessment will help you:

o Improve software testing processes
o Benchmark your company’s process against those of other companies
o Obtain a baseline for improving productivity, competency
o Address the improvement needs in a structured environment
o Provide immediate and longer term improvement plans for reducing defects while meeting project schedules and budget
o Allow you to work with experienced specialists with a high degree of knowledge in testing and change processes
o Ensure correct and sensible use of the “industry standard” models for test process improvement
o Give you access to leading practices (Best Practice Warehouse with over 300+ best practices)
o Result in an optimized test process, and therefore in increased efficiency and cost savings
o Provide full support in all phases of the implementation process

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