TMap NEXT® Testing Clouds is an innovative book on Testing Clouds for the QA early adopter. This book is different from the TMap® book series because, instead of a step-by-step guide, this book describes the cloud business model for testing, the evolution of business technology and steps the testing profession and Sogeti is taking in undertaking cloud projects.
 
TMap NEXT® Testing Clouds explains that the cloud is a business model or platform on which testing must be carried out just like any other service. It enables convenient, on-demand network access to a shared pool of configurable computing resources.
 
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The World Quality Report 2011-2012 is the third in a series of annual surveys examining the state of application quality and testing practises across industries and geographies. Since 2009, the Capgemini Group and HP have published the annual report to provide insight into the latest trends in application quality, methodologies, tools, and processes. As in previous years, the report includes detailed profiles on the state of QA in a number of specific industries: Consumer Products, Retail, and Distribution; Energy, Utilities, and Chemicals; Financial Services; Healthcare and Life Sciences; High Tech; Manufacturing; Public Sector; and Telecommunications, Media, and Entertainment. In addition, this year’s report also includes summaries examining IT trends and quality practices from a regional perspective across nine different geographies: Australia, Brazil, China,  France, Germany, Netherlands, Nordic Region, North America and United Kingdom.

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Sogeti Group has launched the latest in its series of ground-breaking thought-leadership books on test topics – End-to-end testing with TMap NEXT®. This book is the first to describe a complete and methodical approach to one of the most complex test situations facing test professionals today; the testing of a business process from ‘end to end’ through a series of IT systems and subsystems, crossing platforms and organizations, both private and public.

End-to-end testing with TMap NEXT® provides the test professional facing these challenges with the methods, techniques and tools to plan and execute the testing successfully, with less duplicate testing and faster turnaround time. The end-to-end approach is based on TMap NEXT®, Sogeti's world-leading test methodology that promotes a structured approach to consistently achieving quality software.

ISBN number: 9789072194961
Book orders: www.utn.nl

TMap Next’s Business Driven Test Management (BDTM) approach offers test managers an excellent toolset to translate the explicit business objectives for information systems into concrete, pragmatic and controllable test plans, and so achieve a better balance between Result, Risk, Time and Cost. The book is written for two specific audiences: the client who wants to get an insight into what BDTM means for his organisation, and the test manager who wants in-depth descriptions of the activities to be carried out for each BDTM step.

The BDTM approach, part of the TMap® methodology, explores the importance of translating explicit business objectives for information systems into realistic and controllable testing plans and implementation, together with the need to provide insight and control options for the client and other stakeholders. The book incorporates many practical examples, experience and feedback from both users and consultants on testing assignments, making it a highly valuable and practical tool for meeting the current and future challenges in testing.

Available in both English and Dutch. To purchase a book, please contact; www.utn.nl.

ISBN number: 9789072194930.

TMap®  has moved on and this revised version focuses on implementing a business-driven test management approach and product risk analysis, within a structured test process. The authors have updated TMap® recognizing the challenging dynamics of the changing testing environment,  such as permanent managed test organizations, outsourcing and offshoring.

TMap® Next for results-driven testing provides a comprehensive update of the TMap® methodology, providing a full description of the test process, as well as over 400 real-life examples and practical suggestions. 

ISBN: 90-72194-80-2

Software testing is an essential part of software development but many organizations regard it as an uncontrollable part of the process and find it difficult to take steps to improve it. In Test Process Improvement, the authors give practical suggestions for improving the testing process in a gradual and controlled manner, with realistic goals in terms of quality, lead time and costs.

The book explains Sogeti's Test Process Improvement (TPI®) model, tried and tested by numerous professional testers, which provides a structured framework to be used either for improving an existing test process or for developing a new process from scratch. The authors use their in-depth knowledge and extensive experience to provide practical guidance and a framework that enables the reader to adapt the model for use in his/her organisation.

ISBN: 0201596245

TMap® Test Topics describes the application of the generic test methodology TMap® to current IT themes. These themes range from package implementations and data warehouses, via iterative development with components RUP® and DSDM®, to PRINCE2®.

The book also looks at specific test topics; testing chains of systems and processes, exploratory testing, outsourcing and testing, and - in keeping with the current interest in IT governance - business-driven test management. The latter theme describes how the (TMap®) test process is set up in such a way that the business as a client can control the test process on the basis of cost, end date, and risks.

TMap® Test Topics was written for those who are familiar with the TMap® methodology and wish to know how to apply TMap® in their specific situation. A wealth of additional TMap® information, including the appendices of this book, can be found on the web site www.tmap.net.

For TMap Test Topic information in German please visit http://ttt.sogeti.tv/.  

ISBN: 90-72194-75-6

Embedded systems exist everywhere. Cars and airplanes, TV sets and mobile phones cannot work without them.

Testing Embedded Software is a valuable guide for test engineers, programers, project managers and team managers who work with embedded systems. It is the first book of its kind and gives the reader a complete and in-depth insight in testing embedded systems.

ISBN: 0321159861