Test Maturity Model integration (TMMi)

Introduction

Organizations face tougher business objectives every day, e.g., decreased time-to-market, requirements for higher quality levels and reliability and reduced costs.

Background and History

The TMMi framework has been developed by the TMMi Foundation as a guideline and reference framework for test process improvement…

Sources

The development of the TMMi has used the TMM framework as developed by the Illinois Institute of Technology as one of its major sources [Burnstein]…

Scope of the TMMi

Software and System Engineering

The TMMi is intended to support testing activities and test process improvement in both the systems engineering and software engineering disciplines. Systems engineering covers the development of total systems, which …

Test Levels

Whereas some models for test process improvement focus mainly on higher test levels, e.g., Test Process Improvement (TPI) [Koomen and Pol] and its successor TPI-Next [Sogeti], or address only one …

TMMi and CMMI

It is also important to note that TMMi is positioned as a complementary model to the CMMI. In many cases a given TMMi level needs specific support from process areas …

Assessments

Many organizations find value in benchmarking their progress in test process improvement for both internal purposes and for external customers and suppliers. Test process assessments focus on identifying improvement opportunities …

Improvement Approach

The TMMi provides a full framework to be used as a reference model during test process improvement. It does not provide an approach for test process improvement such as the …