Software Testing and Continuous Quality Improvement, 3rd Edition

Chapter 13

Information Gathering (Plan)

You will recall that, in the spiral development environment, software testing is described as a continuous improvement process that must be integrated into a rapid application development methodology. Deming’s continuous improvement process using the PDCA model (see Figure 13.1) is applied to the software testing process. We are now in the Plan part of the spiral model.

Figure 13.2 outlines the steps and tasks associated with information gathering within the Plan part of spiral testing. Each step and task is described along with valuable tips and techniques.

The purpose of gathering information is to obtain information relevant to the software development project and organize it, to understand the scope ...