Waterfall revisited: practical test manager dashboard

To manage you need to measure.

· what to measure when you manage functional testing?

· ‘Quality’? what constitutes it?

· What metrics are vital for you, Test Manager within test cycle: at start, in the middle, in the end?

To answer, a testing dashboard is described containing three related indicators.

The dashboard:

· is inspired by “testing waterfall”: requirements analysis, test design, test execution, bug verification;

· makes the progress of testing visible;

· is independent of tools, applicable for different companies;

· gives a unified view: various test projects are tracked in the same manner

Examples are given of:

· alternate basic measurements under the metrics;

· the metrics structure;

· patterns of metrics trend during testing;

· extra indicators.