As a test manager, if you focus on ensuring critical testing processes are performed well, your project will almost certainly succeed. Neglect your critical testing processes, and your efforts will fail – regardless of the level of your own talent or that of your team.
In this article, Rex Black of RBCS outlines his Critical Testing Processes (CTP) framework, and describes how critical test processes directly affect a test team’s ability to identify bugs, reduce risks, and generate information about the quality of software.
The article offers some useful direction on how to formulate an approach for using CTP to improve your own testing processes.
