Test Process Improvement (TPI)

Software testing has evolved as the impacts of defects on customer satisfaction after product release have been magnified with shorter development schedules and higher user expectations. Hence, improving the software testing process has gained focus so that no only are defects found, but they are found sooner rather than later, and in an effective manner. Rather than doing more of the same thing, XBOSoft can support you with a test maturity assessment designed to improve your software testing process with a proven methodology known as TPI or Test Process Improvement. Integral to TPI, we apply process engineering to assess and evaluate testing maturity. In assessing test maturity, testing is decomposed into 16 Key areas, i.e. test strategy, test process management, test methodology, test metrics, etc.

The test maturity matrix shown below depicts these key areas whereby each key testing area is assessed and evaluated according to 8-11 checkpoints which determine its current level of test maturity: Initial, Controlled, Efficient, or Optimized; and then combined with a plan to improve the overall test process quality.

XBOSoft offers customized Test Process Improvement packages to support small, single project organizations to multi-project enterprises in improving their test improvement efforts. The same methodology is used in each package but customized according to the size of the enterprise and its test process improvement objectives. Discuss how an XBO TPI can assess, evaluate, and improve your testing processes. Click here