Effective Testing

You may be able to put a more positive spin on the effectiveness of your testing by reporting the number of errors corrected. You must find a way to motivate the test team to find as many errors as possible as soon as possible. You need an independent test team with close ties to the development team. They need to start testing early in the life cycle. Without effective testing, it is not unusual for errors that should have been found in unit testing to pop up as late as acceptance testing. You must consider the problem of motivation carefully.