Evaluation and Transfer

Abstract

When the information system has successfully gone into production and the test project has been discharged, the test manager disbands the team, takes his leave of the project and moves on to the next one. His responsibilities seem to end here. But is that right? If he never looks back at what went well and what did not during the test project, and why, there will be no improvement in the following project. Only by making an evaluation can he, as well as the organisation, learn from and improve on the test process. And if he fails to organise the maintenance of the testware for the information system, he does himself or a colleague in a subsequent project a grave disservice. In short, the test manager must never forget evaluation of the test process and transfer of the testware, even though the information system is operating successfully in the production environment.