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Designing a Test Strategy from Goals<br />

Testing is a way to measure the software’s<br />

ability to help the business achieve goals<br />

Acceptance through <strong>test</strong>ing implies there is a<br />

threshold of acceptable results<br />

How will you know when acceptable results<br />

have been achieved?<br />

Goal-Question-Metric (GQM) framework<br />

Step 1: Develop goals (for quality)<br />

Step 2: List the questions that must be<br />

answered to determine if goals are being<br />

met<br />

Step 3: Specify the metrics, the things to be<br />

measured, in order to answer the question<br />

Dr. Victor Basili authored the Goal,<br />

Question, Metric (GQM) paradigm<br />

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© 2007 The University of Texas at Austin

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