The test manager must know which test tool success factors should be assessed for each new test tool added within the project or organization, but to also consider the importance of integrating the tool in the software development lifecycle within the organization....
The Test Manager must ensure that all tools introduced in the organization add value and have a positive test tool return on investment. This is mainly done by performing a cost-benefit analysis before acquiring or building a tool and considering both recurring and non-recurring costs when calculating ROI....
A test manager knows that besides risk based testing there are additional test management techniques such as requirements based testing or other approaches like model-based, reactive and methodical....
Test conditions represent an item or event of a component or system that could be verified by one or more test cases (ex: function, transaction, feature, etc.). A test condition may or may not specify values or variables....
A central responsibility of a manager is to secure and utilize resources (people, software, hardware, infrastructure, etc.) to carry out value-adding processes. These processes are often part of a project or a Programme aimed at delivering software or a system for internal or external use....
There are a number of risk based testing techniques, both formal and informal. Such approaches are subjective and dependent on the skills, experience and preferences of the tester....
While most organizations consider testing valuable in some sense, few managers, including Test Managers, can quantify, describe, or articulate the business value of testing....
Testing involves the creation of a number of other test documents and work products and most of these are produced by Test Analysts and Technical Test Analysts....
A universal test management challenge is the proper selection, allocation and prioritization of tests. The identification and analysis of risk, along with other factors, can be used by the Test Manager to help solve this problem as interacting constraints and variables may require a compromised solution for risk based testing....
Test documentation like Test Strategy is often produced as part of the test management activities. A Test Manager should know how to approach this....