Testmanagement

What is testmanagement?

Testmanagement is defined as the planning, coordination and monitoring of all test activities in a software project to ensure the quality of the end product. It is a comprehensive process that combines various aspects to enable reliable and high-performance software development. Testmanagement tasks include

Resource management, ensuring that all required resources such as time, personnel and tools are utilised effectively,
Monitoring test execution and progress to ensure that all test phases are completed on time and in full,
managing defects, including recording, prioritising and tracking them,
risk management, which identifies potential problems at an early stage and takes measures to minimise them,
and the analysis of test results in order to make informed decisions about the release or optimisation of the software.

In our definition, testmanagement thus ensures that tests are carried out efficiently and effectively, optimises the test processes and guarantees that the software meets the specified quality requirements.

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Challenges in testmanagement

Testmanagement plays a crucial role in the development of software systems, as it ensures that the software functions reliably and fulfils all quality requirements. Structured planning, systematic organisation and continuous monitoring of processes enable risks to be identified and minimised at an early stage. This significantly reduces the likelihood of errors in the end product. It also ensures that all relevant requirements are covered by tests and that test results and errors found are managed efficiently. Testmanagement also supports the provision of necessary reports and metrics that facilitate the approval process.

The comprehensive management solution

Testmanagement with TestBench

TestBench offers a comprehensive solution for the challenges of testmanagement. The software enables structured planning, organisation and monitoring of test processes, which ensures that all requirements are fully covered by tests. TestBench helps to recognise errors at an early stage and reduce the testing effort by efficiently managing test results and errors. The software also supports the approval process with automatic reports and metrics and facilitates collaboration with external parties. The following functions support you in your project:

Allocating and distributing resources

From the overarching test topic to the individual test case, team members can be entered as responsible parties. In addition, reviewers for test specifications and test automation can be defined so that these elements are subject to a dual control principle.

With the help of filters, users can determine which tests are due for review within the next five days.

Fast analyses

Specific questions or analyses can be easily answered or created using filters. Almost all information from TestBench can be included in the definition of a filter. In addition, customised fields and the setting of markers significantly expand these options. This means that queries can be carried out quickly and easily, even with large amounts of data.

Quick overview and easy progress monitoring

The distribution of the status of test specification, test automation and test execution is permanently available and is updated immediately and automatically in the event of changes. The distributions are available for individual areas, so-called test topics or for entire (sub-)projects.

This makes it easy to recognise problems in planning, progress and error frequency.

Measure coverage of requirements

Requirements from connected requirements management tools can be linked directly to the corresponding tests. This makes it possible to precisely check the coverage of the requirements, track changes and their effects on the tests and keep an eye on the current test result status at all times.

Traceability:

Traceability plays a crucial role in testmanagement in order to ensure the connection between requirements, test specifications, test executions and errors found. Thanks to TestBench, all relevant elements can be linked together, ensuring complete traceability. This transparency makes it possible to take targeted measures to rectify errors and ensure that requirements are covered. In this way, traceability not only supports quality assurance, but also the efficiency of the entire test process.

Changes to mass data

In TestBench, tests are organised in test topic trees, which can be interpreted in a similar way to chapters in a document or directory trees. Many elements can be subjected to mass data changes across these test topic trees. Active filters and locks can also be used for targeted changes when transferring data.

Providing reports and analyses

TestBench prepares the data using numerous templates for reports and analyses. These templates are flexibly customisable and offer an open provision of all analyses. This ensures that test results are analysed transparently, while reports can be presented clearly and effortlessly.

Avoidance of formal errors

Analyses enable effective monitoring of the conventions to be adhered to and reliably uncover violations of rules and process specifications. The result is consistent and rule-compliant data in TestBench that can be easily exported as reports – without the need for time-consuming reviews to ensure their correctness (see Static analysis.)

All advantages at a glance

These TestBench functions can simplify testmanagement:

Clear assignment of tasks

Specification, automation and test execution tasks can be assigned to people and managed.

Fast evaluation thanks to flexible filters

Arbitrary attributing and marking of tests helps to find, analyse and compile the right tests using filters.

Up to date

Fast progress monitoring thanks to permanent availability of status distributions.

Keyword Driven Testing

Keyword-Driven Test creates an efficient and maintainable test design, minimises the effort involved in creating test cases through simple reuse and generates readable, easy-to-understand test specifications.

Effective allocation of requirements and errors

Requirements and errors can be assigned to tests so that coverage and corrections can be easily identified and integrated into testmanagement.

Better management and overview

Changes to mass data enable tests to be managed effectively. Manual and automated tests can be created, managed and analysed together so that a comprehensive picture is always available.

Everything at a glance

Joint management of manual and automated tests creates a complete and integrated test image.

Problem solving through links

Errors can be directly linked to test cases and test steps, whereby the effects on requirements and their correction are optimally integrated into testmanagement.

Your questions - our answers

Do you have questions about testmanagement or are you looking for support in optimising your test processes? Our experts will be happy to help you. Contact us and we will help you to organise your test strategies efficiently and successfully.