by Mario Moreira

Test is a very valuable discipline in the engineering field. For years, there has been a need for test plans to ensure that systematic testing occurs on projects, test designs to ensure the test approach is reflective of the project under development, and test procedures to ensure testing is being performed in a repeatable manner. More recently, the test function must be able to support more and more complex application development. With this comes the need for test automation and more sophisticated test tools for more efficient testing. This implies more test artifacts that must be managed which include numerous test scripts, test cases, test data, test results...