TMap® - Test Management Approach

TMap® is Sogeti's world-renowned Test Management Approach, a business-driven, risk-based methodology for structured software testing, designed to address the key issues of quality, time and cost across the whole software development lifecycle.

TMap® provides a complete tool box for setting up and executing tests, including detailed and logical instruction to testers, and so helps deliver more complex, high quality software, faster - saving organisations both time and money.

Our TMap® services include:

Implementation of best-practice risk-based and business-driven test execution over the lifecycle of a program, project or system module/application
Testing end-to-end solutions - specifying and executing tests particularly across a complex series of interconnected applications and systems
Testing discrete elements of the delivery lifecycle such as integration, system and user acceptance testing
Testing of specialist aspects of solutions production particularly automation, load, performance, security, embedded systems testing
Integration with requirements lifecycle management.

TMap® is a proven methodology based on Sogeti research and user experience. Its consistent approach makes it suitable for a wide variety of organisations and industries and so has been selected as the standard test approach by many leading companies and institutes in Europe and the US.

It is also adaptive and appropriate for all test situations in most development environments, such as waterfall, iterative and agile development, plus bespoke, customised or packaged software.

Benefits of Sogeti's Risk-Based Approach to Project and Programme Testing

A structured but flexible test process ensures a consistent focus on meaningful and essential client-specific metrics and a deeper understanding of associated risks
The detection of defects moves back down the total development lifecycle; early defect identification and quality management ensure that overall quality targets are met or exceeded
A shorter testing period on the critical path of the total development cycle helps business meet its time-to-market timescales and reduce overal development costs
A repeatable and reliable test process means that time is saved next time round, and the time after that
Consistency, standardisation and knowledge transfer means a common language for all involved – business, technical, supplier partners – helping to embed testing knowledge in the organisation.

With over 30 years' experience and ongoing methodology development (TMap® NEXT was launched in 2006), Sogeti provides genuine assurance across all kinds of testing projects. This means that by implementing a defined structured framework to the end-to-end test process, defects are identified earlier, timelines reduced by at least 30% and overall costs driven down.

This integrated approach across the overall delivery lifecycle helps to ensure that testing services are optimised, business expectations are met and, by working with the client’s delivery team, that knowledge is transferred.

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Our Dedicated TMap® Website
If you are a user/practioner of TMap®, please visit our dedicated site www.tmap.net, where you can find a wealth of detailed information on TMap® and TMap® NEXT. Here you can download a number of white papers and practical documents – such as checklists, vision documents – as well as updates on TMap® developments. The site is in both English and Dutch.