Many organizations realize that improving the test process is essential for ensuring the quality of information systems and the overall business process. However, in practice, it’s often challenging to define the steps required to improve and control the process, and in what order. Sogeti's Test Process Improvement (TPI®) model is a practical methodology for optimising a test process and aligning it with specific business goals and drivers.
The Model offers insight into the current maturity of an organisation's test capability, through assessing key areas of the process and providing checkpoints and improvement suggestions to enable incremental improvements in the process and therefore provide greater return on investment.
Intensive assessment of an organisation’s testing capability, structure, approach, process and environment with a view to identifying:
- Areas for improvement
- A “get well” roadmap
- Cost and value justification
Typical areas covered would include:
IT Management
- Quality Assurance
- Appetite for risk and risk management
- Future plans
- Cost of service
- Perception of Service
Test methodology
- Current techniques/processes
- Structure/roles/skills of the team
- Planning and reporting
- Metrics
- Repeatability
Release and Configuration Management
- Current release mechanisms
- Current configuration management mechanisms
- Existing environments and usage
Project management
- Methodology
- Touch points for testing
- Quality plan
- SCRUM/Agile initiatives