Business Process Management Is Need of the Time

Being in testing field, we should be always keen on knowing what's the buzz in Information technology. One of them is BPM. BPM stands for "Business Process Management" and it's about management of business processes as the name suggests.

A business process is managed by a business person in the organization; someone who understand the "business" and works on deciding the strategy for doing that business, evaluates how well the business is going, and decides on how to change the process in order to meet changing conditions. Business processes cannot be managed by software engineers.

Today, business process management is something that the organization wants done. It is not remained only buzz word anymore, but became need of today's competitive world to run the business.

Automating business processes would take any organization ahead of the race, no doubt about it and here systems like ActiveVOS plays major role. It's supposed to be all-in-one visual orchestration system. Basically, this system helps the businesses to not only automate the processes as discussed above, but also adapt changes in business quickly, control the overall state of business.

It's worth giving a try to this system with their 30 days free trial available at their website for your business process management plan.

What are IEEE 829 Test Plan Standards?

Hi All, I know I have been away from posting on this blog since long and I apologize for that. There were few things which needed to be taken care of so my blogging activity was side lined. I would try to be more regular in posting new articles on this blog now onwards.

Recently, I have been searching a lot on testing jargons and come across a list of IEEE 829 Test Plan Standards as it was something which is not known generally.

This could be the list of standards to make your test plan IEEE 829 compliant as per the source.

1. Test plan identifier.
2. Introduction.
3. Test items.
4. Features to be tested.
5. Features not to be tested.
6. Approach.
7. Item pass/fail criteria.
8. Suspension criteria and resumption requirements.
9. Test deliverables.
10. Testing tasks.
11. Environmental needs.
12. Responsibilities.
13. Staffing and training needs.
14. Schedule.
15. Risks and contingencies.
16. Approvals.

What is a Traceability Matrix / Requirements Traceability Matrix?

The concept of Traceability Matrix is to be able to trace from top level requirements to implementation, and from top level requirements to test.

A traceability matrix is a table that traces a requirement to the tests that are needed to verify that the requirement is fulfilled. A good traceability matrix will provide backward and forward traceability, i.e. a requirement can be traced to a test and a test to a requirements. The matrix links higher level requirements, design specifications, test requirements, and code files. It acts as a map, providing the links necessary for determining where information is located. This is also known as Requirements Traceability Matrix or RTM.

This is mostly used for QA so that they can ensure that the customer gets what they requested. The Traceability matrix also helps the developer find out why some code was implemented the way it was, by being able to go from code to Requirements. If a test fails, it is possible to use the traceability matrix to see what requirements and code the test case relates to.

The goal of a matrix of this type is -
1. To make sure that the approved requirements are addressed/covered in all phases of development: From SRS to Development to Testing to Delivery.
2. That each document should be traceable: Written test cases should be traceable to its requirement specification. If there is new version then updated testcases should be traceable with that.

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Outline for Developing a Traceability Matrix

Template for a Requirements Traceability Matrix

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