Software Testing Checklist (STICK)
by Claudia Kottmann
and Pete Herzog
STICK is a tool to guide software developers, test designers
and project managers through the troubled waters of how to guarantee that
software is shipped in high quality. STICK is both a methodology on quality
assurance in IT projects to compliment the STICK-checklist as a methodological
basis.
The purpose of the project is to assure software quality, which as a project
integrates with other ISECOM projects, where quality means durability,
scalability, performance, security, usability, and readability. From this
definition, it should be possible to test and
measure software quality using similar parameters and methods found in the
OSSTMM and the
BIT.
The stages and routines are collected in a checklist to represent test planning,
design and execution and include a part to review which kind of tool might be
helpful to perform these. Also included is a preliminary phase called Quality
Assessment which gives the framework on whatever software development and test
has to be done.
Testing has to have proper management attention to have a chance to survive
budget and project time cutting. This is an existing problem because the
erroneous idea that testing is just cost intensive without adding value to the
software project is still in many heads. Project leaders therefore have to
thoroughly plan tests and time frames within which these can be performed – the
responsibility of which is to be seen
here. STICK, does have the aim of assuring quality through efficient and
practical testing, however, any test will have some cost associated with it in
both time and overhead.
A checklist such as STICK will help to on one hand to follow a guide through the
complexity of testing possibilities and on the other hand it gives a
documentation, which may save those who plan test, from time cuts just because
things begin getting more transparent.
If you are interested in helping with this project please contact us at
stick<at>isecom.org.
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