Wrong Boundary Ways to Manage Testing

December 01 10:00 2014 by Nataliia Vasylyna Print This Article

In order to execute any mobile testing, desktop testing or web site testing properly, all the works should be well planned and organized.

Good business relationships between testers and managers play a key role in success of a project.

2 Types of Wrong Relationships Between Team Members and the Managers Are:

The managers are too permissive and fully trust their teams; they do not check the work results, allow the testers to perform their work how they want. Under such conditions people become disorganized and irresponsible. Results of such security testing, load testing, functional testing or any other testing type may be unreliable, serious defects may be missed; important areas may be insufficiently verified.
The managers are too authoritarian. They carefully plan all the activities for every team members, check all the test results and discourage any suggestions arguments and initiative of the testers. In this case manual and automated testing may be inefficient, as the testers cannot be creative; they just do what they are told to without thinking. Such attitude is unacceptable for software testing.

In order to make testing works efficient relationships between the team and managers should be trust-based, testers should be able to plan their activities, and the managers should maintain control of all the processes and test results.