Quality management—a strategic business advantage
June 2006
IBM Rational software
quality solutions.
Sandra Wilkey, Market Manager
IBM Rational Software
IBM Rational software quality solutions
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2 Make quality management
a first-class citizen in the
software development lifecycle
2 Start quality initiatives early
to avoid costly mistakes
3 Use a common team
communication platform
5 Ensure high-quality code
6 Leverage automation
across the entire test and
development team
7
Improve test efficiency
and accuracy through
automation tools
11 Validate scalability and
conformance to service-
level agreements
12 Integrate packaged application
testing into your process
13 Integrate mainframe application
testing into your process
14 Use testing rigor to help
comply with regulatory
requirements
14 Treat outsource testing service
providers as an extension of
your team
15 Make IT lifecycle management
a core competency
Contents
Make quality management a first-class citizen in the software development lifecycle
Developer testing, user testing, outsourced testing, ad hoc testing. However it
works in your organization, testing and quality checkpoints play a crucial role
in the successful delivery of today’s complex, heterogeneous, business-critical
software systems. As software development is becoming more sophisticated,
companies are discovering that—when they’re built with the right people and
armed with the right tools and processes—testing teams add tremendous value
to solving the complex problem of delivering high-quality enterprise software
systems.
This realization comes at a critical time—when IT organizations and develop-
ment teams are being asked to address a new set of challenges: predicting the
ability of software systems to be self-managing and self-healing, rapidly assem-
bling and testing of services-based (SOA) applications, managing projects
using distributed or outsource testing providers, and using test and validation
processes to support regulatory compliance audits. Th