WISQA.org - August 2002

Wisconsin Information Systems
Quality Assurance

At the August membership meeting our own panel of experts went to work on a number of questions. Here are the questions they tackled, and the "answers" They came up with.

Question #1: How to get testing out of the way and in stages so there isn't crunch-testing time? Managing changes so that they are coming in for steady stream of testing and not all at once at the time of testing freeze.

Note: For this question, there were three breakout groups that addressed the same topic.

Question #2: What measures should be use to measure IT effectiveness and project success?

Question #3: How to keep a regression database up to date and not lose integrity? Functionality changes, so does time, how do you keep up with time without losing the integrity of the data you have for regression testing?

Question #4: Today, we have some customers that document requirements, some that don't document them at all and some are somewhere in the middle. Often, the requirements are in different formats. We would like to have a consistent approach to documenting requirements and a good process to trace test cases back to the requirements. Any suggestions in the method and tools to use for documenting requirements and making the requirements traceable to the test cases would be much appreciated.