MPT.BR: A Brazilian Maturity Model for Testing

Author

Furtado, Ana Paula Carvalho Cavalcanti ; Gomes, Marcos André Wanderley ; Andrade, Ermeson Carneiro ; De Farias, Ivaldir Honório, Jr.

Author_Institution

Center for Excellence in Software Technol.-SoftexRecife, Recife, Brazil

fYear

2012

fDate

27-29 Aug. 2012

Firstpage

220

Lastpage

229

Abstract

The discipline of software testing is increasingly drawing industry´s attention to itself due to the demand for quality products and the high level of competition in the market. This scenario can be supported by a maturity model that continuously improves the discipline of testing when applied to the software development lifecycle. Therefore, MPT.BR, the acronym in Portuguese for Improving Test Processing. Brazil, is presented as a maturity model for testing to help when introducing testing disciplines in software organizations. It can be seen as an alternative for companies that aim to increase their product quality and ROI. MPT.BR has been applied over the last 3 years in small and medium-sized software organizations, the results of which will be discussed in this paper.

Keywords

DP industry; product quality; program testing; small-to-medium enterprises; software quality; Brazilian maturity model; MPT.BR; market competition; quality product demand; small and medium-sized software organization; software development lifecycle; software testing; test processing; Capability maturity model; Companies; Software; Software testing; Standards organizations; maturity model; product quality; software testing;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Quality Software (QSIC), 2012 12th International Conference on

Conference_Location

Xi´an, Shaanxi

ISSN

1550-6002

Print_ISBN

978-1-4673-2857-9

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/QSIC.2012.53

Filename

6319253