Test Management White Papers

A useful resource for quality assurance managers and testers

Optimized Testing: How to Balance Quality, Cost and Schedules
In a perfect world IT would be able to take full advantage of its testing processes, ensuring that it would exhaustively test business-critical functionality. Unfortunately, most testing organizations are limited by time constraints, costs and resource conflicts. Without a clear testing strategy tied directly to business-specific objectives, many IT organizations face an uphill battle trying to reduce and eliminate risks associated with defective applications. They are uncertain whether to focus their testing efforts on functionality, performance, end-user expectations or the infrastructure in which the application is being deployed. As a result, IT organizations are in the dark about how relevant their testing is to business needs. What's needed is an optimized testing approach that allows IT to better manage their testing efforts to reduce risk and improve effectiveness, while limiting the resources and time investments required.

How to Increase IT Efficiency and Business Effectiveness: Implementing a Risk-Based Approach to Ensuring Application Quality
When it comes down to it, there's simply less room for error in today's world—especially when it comes to testing and deploying business-critical applications. Risk-based testing allows you to get a better handle on what to test and prioritize it based on how important it is to the business. This paper outlines the benefits of a risk-based testing approach and introduces QACenter Enterprise Edition, a testing solution designed to automate and facilitate risk-based testing and provide a repeatable framework for IT organizations to do better with less.

Compuware Solutions Facilitate Data Privacy Compliance in the Application Testing Environment
Hurwitz and Associates recently prepared a customer benefit report that describes the issues surrounding data privacy requirements in the test environment and provides best practices for addressing these challenges.  The paper includes a four-phase implementation strategy that, when combined with Compuware's products, will assist companies in streamlining the process of creating and maintaining test data environments to reduce risk and comply with data privacy legislation. In addition, read how one company is simplifying the process of securing their test data while meeting legislation compliance.

Creating and Managing a Secure Test Data Environment
You can obtain ROI when you create a repeatable test process and run more test cases in less time. To do this, you need a realistic test data environment that satisfies the business rules of the application. Learn how you can create and manage a complete and realistic test data environment by creating baseline and test databases as well as generating data that can be used by your testers when they are performing functional/regression tests or performance/load tests.

Rapid problem resolution for complex WebSphere MQ applications
If your organization is using WebSphere MQ, you know how critical it is to the business but how difficult it can be to resolve issues in this environment. You can ease the pressure of correcting issues in WebSphere MQ by adopting a structured approach that emphasizes application tools to resolve application problems. Download this white paper to learn how you can use Compuware tools to build an organized process to rapidly detect, understand and correct application problems involving WebSphere MQ.