Especificação de processos de apoio gerencial ao processo de testes de Software

Abstract

Software companies are always concerned about improving the quality of their products and processes. By improving the quality of process, it also contributes to the quality of the product resulting from this process. Several strategies can applied to reach processes quality. One of them consists in the integration of support processes that assist the management of the main process and may be applied when required, contributing to the success and the quality of the main process and its products. When talking about software product quality, we can cite software testing activities, which are planned and executed in order to increase product quality through a process that also needs to be managed. Therefore, approaches that aim to contribute to the quality of the software testing process indirectly contribute to the quality of the software product. Thus, the strategy of integration of support processes that help to manage the testing process also contributes to this quality. However, this kind of approach is poorly developed in the technical literature, especially in the context of testing. Considering this necessity, this thesis presents the definition of two Support Processes instantiated to Software Testing Process, Testing Risk Management Process and Testing Human Resource Management Process, specified in order to contribute to the quality of management aspect of the testing process. These processes were defined based on several maturity models and norms/standards. In order to evaluate the proposed processes, a peer review was conducted with experts in the fields related to the specified processes and the results of this evaluation suggest that the proposed processes are appropriate and can be integrated into the testing process.