For any sizable software engineering effort, test management is an important concern. As any management process does,
it deals with different aspects of organization, planning, team preparation, monitoring, and reporting the test
process to be followed. The target audience for this practice is the more mature test organizations which need
to independently plan and track the test effort, but still interface and collaborate with the rest of the
overall development team.
Very few people will argue against test management, because the need of organizing and controlling the testing effort
is evident. The more important questions are how and how much extra effort will be required? The Test Management
practice provides a good starting point for practitioners relatively new to this area, but it also offers a structured
reference model for the more seasoned professionals.
An important factor that needs to be considered are the tools that assist in planning, designing, implementing,
executing, evaluating, and managing the test tasks or work products and how well they align with your current
practices. The Test Management practice is tool-enabled, as the tasks and artifacts can easily be realized by
specific tools in this domain.
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