Pure test Islands are not enough

Specialized test tools for software development can be found in many larger companies, the IT systems to produce or adapt. We use them rarely. Mostly missing supportive procedures for an integrated application lifecycle management.

According to a study by European firms PAC appreciate the benefits of software testing tools high. 55 percent of respondents described their investment in these tools as "very high" or "high". The same study, however, promotes days, that in practice only a minority of 23 percent solutions, is based on the testing tailored. It built itself dominate tools or applications such as Excel.

The stumbling block with a high degree of automation of software testing prevents lies mostly in incomplete development and test processes. Test tools quickly reach their limits when they operate as standalone solutions and their integration especially with the early stages of the IT lifecycle unsatisfactory. Quality is still often referred to as downstream and taken separately task. A true test automation can only be used in an integrated development and testing process will succeed.

Companies working in this direction to begin creating a new division of labor: The Departments do not have to test procedures and tools to address, as designated specialists to test these issues of infrastructure and processes to worry about. Conversely, this means that the specialists of the departments, the test cases to be assessed according to predefined standards and documented. So once they get not only the implementation of necessary systems, but also a reliable test documentation to prove whether and how far the software business requirements.

This means that it is not enough just to test tools and documentation to implement. Even their successful integration with the requirements management solutions is not sufficient. Rather it is, the processes and tools so that the test management functions in order to make the complex division of work between departments, developers and testers to control.

Condition is a solution that would test tools into a single suite together so that the business needs to roll out and maintain a uniform and werkzeugbasierter process. A single tool for the entire testing process does not exist. This application lifecycle management, given the many actors and solutions remain manageable and transparent, is also worth a dashboard, the results of all relevant target groups prepared.