Software Standards and Test Management Tools

SOFTWARE STANDARDS AND TEST MANAGEMENT TOOLS 1
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SOFTWARE STANDARDS AND TEST MANAGEMENT TOOLS 2
Part A
Introduction
Standards are guideline documentations which reflect agreements to various practices,
products and operations procedures nationally and globally recognized industrial, professional,
trade associations or government bodies (Chinosi & Trombetta, 2012). The national standard for
Australia researched on NATA (National Association of Testing Authorities, Australia 2013).
This standard was established in 1947 but in 1988 its roles were affirmed in the country. The
standard borrows from the ISO 29119 standard for software testing.
Internationally ISO/IEC/IEEE 29119 is the standard used in software testing. It is
applicable throughout the development and maintenance of software products and software-
intensive systems. This standard covers a wide range of subtopics which include software testing
concept that is testing in all stages of the life cycle model, testing processes which include test
process for organizations, the process of management as well as dynamic test (the advanced level
of the test management) process.
The test management process basically covers the planning, monitoring and controlling
stages of the project n the project cycle whereas dynamic test processes covers the design and
implementation, environment set-up, execution and incident reporting.
Software testing is critical to achieving software quality and reliable software. The standards
help the consumer be confident in the product. They portray the authors' expertise on the
standard, the manufacturers conform to the market requirement by using the standards and also it
provides the safety from liability (Stallings, Brown, Bauer, & Bhattacharjee, 2012).

SOFTWARE STANDARDS AND TEST MANAGEMENT TOOLS 3
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NATA
Copyright Holder
The NATA standard copyright is under the Commonwealth of Australia act 1968.
Contributors
From the research of the two standards, there are no indicated universities that were involved in
the contribution of the development of the standard document.
Scope
The NATA standards scope mainly covers software acceptance testing, the functionality
testing, the stability tests, compatibility, healthcare tests and technical embedded system test.
This test is aligned to ISO 14598.5 (Suprem, Mahalik, & Kim, 2013). The testing involves
writing down the tests of a software version to be released of the developed software against the
software requirement, there are review and update tests, also a dry test on the software (Mell &
Grance, 2011).
Key terms in NATA
Test verdict: The declaration after the test. They can be no, yes or inconclusive, this is declared
that the test case.
Test tools: the hardware and software are used to carry out the testing requirement.
Test cases: The complete test case sets that help in achieving the test objective.
Test software: The software used to carry out the testing.
Test methods: The technical procedures for performing test services.
Test case: sets of inputs, preconditions, executions and the expected outcome.