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Paper trails sometimes cover QA, but quality efforts fall down on manageability

By SD Times News Team

August 1, 2008 —

Fewer than three in 10 organizations employ a test case management application, leaving many quality-assurance departments using manual systems that are poorly documented, if at all, according to a survey from Seapine Software.

Eighteen percent of survey respondents perform ad hoc testing, another 16 percent document tests while they’re in progress and 21 percent document their tests ahead of time on paper-based systems, Seapine said. Three out of four organizations either cannot analyze test failures at all or they rely on manual compilation of data.

Seapine, which makes QA tools, bases its figures on a continuing survey of development and QA specialists from various industries; as of late June, almost 1,000 people had completed the survey.

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