9 best practices for Test Management

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9 best practices for Test Management
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Introduction Test management is a comprehensive
process involving multiple phases of risk
analysis, test estimation, test planning, test
organization, test monitoring control, issues
management, and test report execution. But it
has its own share of challenges such as lack of
time for testing, lack of required resources,
absence of colocated test teams, and ambiguity
of test requirements. To ensure the maximum
effectiveness of the test management process, it
is imperative to overcome these challenges
first.  A properly followed test management life
cycle consistently helps meet and exceed customer
demands in terms of product quality. The race
among organizations to reduce the time to market
with the best quality products is laying an even
greater stress today on such a framework than
ever before. Being the center of attention, if
followed properly, the process will lead to
better products, and thereby more satisfied
customers.  Let us understand the best practices
to follow for test management 
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Test Management recommendations  Best practices
for Test Management include keeping the test
efforts organized with well-defined processes and
systems in place. Since different projects may
have different specific testing requirements, an
effective test management process can deliver a
predictable and repeatable process. Such
processes are usually easier to estimate and
plan, which help the overall management and
control of a project.  To overcome the challenges
that hinder the implementation of a successful
test management environment, organizations may
try to use the following well-known practices to
implement a successful?test management?system  1
. Begin the testing activities earlier in the
SDLC Even though this is an unsaid
rule, few organizations follow it. This leads to
bugs being identified at a later stage which
adds on to the costs. The test process,
therefore, must begin as soon as a few test cases
have been written or if they can be extracted
from the initial software requirements. 
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  2. Perform iterative tests Software testing
must be performed iteratively. This risk-based
approach helps generate important testing assets
and also helps reduce problems going ahead by
garnering focus on bugs or any unwelcome delays
early on in the cycle.  3. Reuse test assets and
improve time spent every time  Recycling and
reuse of test procedures  test automation
objects always help enhance the quality and
efficiency  of  a product, and of teams too that
can save a lot of time and effort by this simple
strategy. However, it requires test management
skills to be able to foresee if a certain asset
can be reused in the future.  4. Utilize testing
and testing strategies based on
requirements Different strokes fell different
oaks, they say. Similarly, to perform different
types of tests, such as agile, security, mobile,
big data and analytics, and more, you need to
follow different testing approaches that suit the
specific kind of test management framework. In
other words, try to follow a requirements-based
testing approach that not only helps in
system/application validation but also helps in
calculating the testing efforts needed.  Read
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