Test Management Tools - Effective Testing Tools Follow A Scenario Based Methodology

Jan. 31, 2013 - PRLog -- The importance of an effective test management procedure can’t be denied. It lets QA team to plan, develop, execute as well as assess the testing process. This end-to-end process or the software testing life-cycle starts in product’s requirement or the SSD or Software Design Description. In the last decade, the software testing market has grown tremendously that led to developing huge number of software testing tools.

Among these tools, Test Management Tools is one of the important tools as it helps QA teams to organize the overall testing procedure effectively. The traditional way of test management process was a length affair. However, as the world of software development expanded, the need for effective testing tools also emerged. Thus, today the market offers different types of testing tools.

These tools offer host of benefits to QA teams to ensure that the final software meet the requirements effectively without missing the deadline. Effective testing tools follow a Scenario-based methodology for Development and Testing, to design test scenarios, test cases and test scripts. Ability to create test cases based on use case scenarios and test scenarios based formal models like Decision Tables and State Models are some of the advantages of testing tools. It also helps in maintaining traceability between requirements, scenarios, test cases, test sets and test scripts. Simultaneously, maintaining the pass/fail status on test case level, test set level and the requirement level are done by effective Test Management Tools.

When it comes to choosing software testing tools, it is important to ensure the tools covers three important components namely-requirements, Tests and issues and allow the QA team to integrate between them. This helps the team members to track the total process and address any issue immediately, if arises to save time.

Secondly, each company has its own way of working what we call unique work methodology. Herein lies the importance of customization and thus testing tools must be selected as it should be user-friendly with ease to use, but at the same time can be customized so that it can be changed according to the work flow of the organization and not vice-versa. The tool must allow the team leader or coordinator to distribute work and effectively manage them.  
Quality Test Management Tools must have an efficient reporting system as it helps to provide the QA team with information about present state of system under test. This helps the team to get the entire scenario and spot any issues or problems.

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