Integrated Testing and Development
William E. Lewis, David E. Dobbs, Gunasekaran Veerapillai · Auerbach Publications eBooks · 2017
This chapter addresses the test execution-another aspect of the quality control process. The integrated approach to testing supports the goals of quality control, summarized here as keeping errors out of the development process and preventing errors from reaching the customer. Traditionally, functional characteristics separated test organizations from development organizations. Integrating testing methodology and development methodology into a single methodology is neither a new concept nor is the implementation particularly common. One approach to an integrated test and development methodology is to incorporate the testing steps and tasks into the development process by adding or modifying the development tasks. Usually, the person who is responsible for the development methodology integrates testing processes. The design methodology may be addressed by design standards, so the team may accept the design tasks as part of the integrated methodology, or the team may decide that the design methodology and tasks remain outside the integrated methodology.