Software test process improvement approaches

Introduction

Ø For the past decade, the software industry has invested

 substantial effort to improve the quality of its products.

Ø the software industry is still far from zero defects

Ø To improve product quality, the software industry has

 often focused on improving its development processes

Ø Software test process improvement (STPI) approaches are

 frameworks that guide software development organizations

to improve their software testing process.

Ø They have identified existing STPI approaches and their 

characteristics using a systematic literature review (SLR)

Ø They  have selected two approaches (TPI NEXT and 

TMMi) are evaluated with respect to their content and 

assessment results in industry.

Ø They have identified 18 STPI approaches and their 

characteristics.

Ø A detailed comparison of the content of TPI NEXT and 

TMMi is done.

Ø A guideline that has been widely used to improve the 

development processes is the Capability Maturity Model

Ø the testing community has created its own 

improvement models

Ø The TMMi is a detailed model for test process 

 improvement and is positioned as being complementary 

to the CMMI.

Referencias:

Wasif Afzal Etal. (10 September 2015). Software test process improvement approaches: A systematic literature review and an industrial case study. The Journal of Systems and Software, 111, 33. 27 August 2015, De science direct Base de datos.