How to i introduce testing to organisation that never done testing before?

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Keitumetse Mogashoa's picture

I'm assign to introduce testing to organisation that don't know anything regarding testing. I would like to have tips or material that i can use as a start to have their buy in.

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Madhava Verma Dantuluri's picture

First of all you need to prepare a Proof of concept (POC) by taking care of below aspects:

1. Discuss with development team and get access to bugs reports.

2. Do a simple pareto analysis by seggregating the defects into different categories (Requirements defects, Design defects, coding defects, environment defects).

3. With the above analysis, you can clearly showcase that maximum defects are with coding faults only and can be caught by testing team before going for production deployment.

4. Prepare a test plan (Requirements undestanding, Test case design, Select a open source test management tool like TestLink, bug tracking tool like bugzilla or Jira, Test strategy)

5. Start the testing by taking one module and perform both test case execution and Exploratory testing.

Rafael Battesti's picture

Adding up, probably it would be a good idea to demonstrate the importance of testing throuout the software lifecycle putting number of defects found and fixed against cost and time to market. Use your company's best cases to do so. It is also important to evaluate the testing efforts from the "learned lessons" perspective, showing it can reduce development costs in future projects by keeping an effective backlogand helping implement a process improvement operation.

Hope this helps you out.

Best regards.

Gourav jain's picture

If you are a fresher, then define the project and acadmics. But if you want to really go to software testing domain, understand the basic of testings and go.

Steve Laats's picture

I agree with the other comments here. However, make sure you get management support for testing and quality assurance tasks. You'll need that management support when you estimate that it will take 6 weeks to complete your tests and the dev lead tells you that you have 6 days! Then defects could slip through because you weren't given the time to adequately test. Good luck!

Keitumetse Mogashoa's picture

Thanks so much for your help guys and i will work on it.

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