Building a Testing Team like It Is a Sports Team

by Nataliia Vasylyna | April 26, 2016 6:45 am

There many similarities between sports and software product testing or mobile testing.

Just like a sports team during important tournament, a testing team in the midst of performing functional testing[1] or load testing[2] should be united by the common goal, behave as an entity, and strive for victory. Of course, individual skills of each software tester play an important role, but a team’s unity and spirit are vital.

What Makes a Sports (and Testing) Team Successful?

• The main secret of building a great team is a shared goal. In a software testing company[3], each team member should agree on global business goals and short-term objectives.
• Teammates who are sticking to their roles and fully understand what they are supposed to do is another important aspect of a team’s success. Although some outstanding sports teams somehow manage to win despite the blurred allocation of roles, it’s almost always not an option.
• Both company-wide and internal rules should be obeyed by all members of a team and equally apply to each member.
• It should not be forgotten that teammates are to some extent dependent on each other. For example, in soccer, a goalkeeper should always be prepared to help and hit the ball away if the team’s defenders failed to do their job.

A good team manager should not hesitate to use the analogy with sports to build a better, more cohesive team.

Related Posts:

• Diverse Testing Team: Collecting a Jigsaw Puzzle[4]
• How to Form Development and Testing Team?[5]
• Improving Testers Performance[6]

Source URL: https://blog.qatestlab.com/2016/04/26/building-testing-team/

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