Technology has made it necessary for organizations to develop certain software that is considered to be the backbone of the organizations of diverse sectors. Software is the new food to many many organizations. The software development industry is facing a rise and fall on a daily basis with the success and failure of software products. All that a customer demands is that of quality software, free of bugs and crashes when they come across it. All this can be made possible through the appropriate testing measures of the software product before it is released in the market.
The quality of software depends upon the organization’s testing efforts and testing efforts includes the right use and implementation of test management tools that helps quality assurance teams to speed up testing processes while enabling them to focus on more valuable tasks. This means that a test management tool must be well aligned to the business requirements and posses the best feature set that after its implementation would be able to bring benefits for the organization.
A good test management tool must have these essential features in it;
Simplified tracking function – A complex, multi-step process requires an organizational system that can maintain labels on multiple moving parts. Each stage of the test life cycle must be carefully tracked to ensure the smooth progress of the project. The test dashboard for tracking in test cases is very beneficial for current and future projects. Traceable test management tools with digestible interfaces can easily detect inconsistent test requirements. It also provides the opportunity to reuse test cases for all future projects, because everything is fully documented and organized.
Reporting in real-time – Real-time reporting as a function is closely integrated with simplified tracking functions. Although it can certainly bring retrospective benefits, it must also be able to clearly outline what is happening at any given moment in the project. This is the value of real-time reporting. This helps software development teams, especially agile teams, in two very important ways. First, it enhances the interactive functions of the software, which has become an important part of the agile testing methodology. Second, it can establish a more continuous feedback loop, which ultimately speeds up the quality inspection process.
Simple and flexible to use – A test management tool that is complicated and difficult to use is more likely to demand certain training for your team members. And hence training will create another expenditure list for organizations. Selecting a simple and easy to use tool would not demand any specific training and skills to utilize it, that’s why it is important for an organization to decide whether it would go for a simple or complex tool.
Conclusion
For a better software product, quality needs to be ensured. And for better quality, an appropriate and accurate tool must be selected that aligns well with the testing projects and business requirements. A tool has great importance for software development organizations because it helps in speeding up the lengthy processes and make an organization productive.
