Four questions to review / have conversations with your team
One of the important things is a continuous review and improvement of what you’re doing at the moment. Here is a short blog of four questions you could use as part of a review.
- What are your quality standards both internal and external?
Internal standard for example would be an exit criteria or definition of done. An external standard could be meeting GDPR regulations or Web Content Accessibility Guides.
2. What slows you down?
That could be for example the process or poor testability of the product under test.
3. Scope: how much are you testing?
This is to get a feeling of too much/too little/just right. You could review your mission statement for the product under test and see if your testing aligns with that. If you’re not currently writing a mission statement e.g. the purpose of what you’re doing, then that could be a consideration.
4. Quality criteria (functional and non-functional) — what are your current gaps?
List out all the quality criteria and do two things.
a) In scope / out of scope for the product under test
b) For the items in scope, tick the ones you are covering and cross for the ones you’re not doing.
Now review the ones that are in scope and not covering — what is your plan to address?
