Just Enough Software Test Automation

Support Activities

Testing Is a Team Effort

Because software testing is done at the team level, it requires tools that support and enhance team member communication and that present an integrated interface allowing team members to share common views of testing process activities and artifacts. One of the predominant problems at all stages of the testing process is artifact control and storage. One of the areas that provide the most payback to the testing process is automated configuration management of testing deliverables. There are many documents and executables that are created that must be available to all of the test team members. Team members frequently work these entities in parallel. They must be protected from concurrent updates that ...