Track C: Test Management


Leo van der Aalst

CURRÍCULUM VITAE

After having gone through the classic path (from programmer to project manager) Leo has specialised since 1990 in the test field, in which he held functions such as test manager, test advisor, research & development manager and line manager.

As business development manager he has been co-author of TMap Next and developed amongst others services for the implementation of test organisations and for test outsourcing. Leo has also designed the EXIN tasks for TMap Next Foundation as well as for the Advanced exam and he supplies preparation training for these exams.

His knowledge and experience in the project- and test management field have been used and developed further during a number of international projects and consultancy trajectories (in USA, Germany, Denmark and Austria).

Besides all this, Leo is a much sought-after teacher of test training and a regular speaker on national- and international conferences (a.o. NGI, Test Congress in London, Quality Week Europe in Brussels, ICSTEST in Duesseldorf, TAV in Stuttgart) and he is the author of several articles (i.e. risk based testing, benefits of a test service centre, business driven test management).


ABSTRACT

Risk Based Test Strategy Judged

This presentation is based on experiences with four projects at large Dutch banks.

The use of a risk-based test strategy is something we see more and more. But has the end-result (i.e. defects found during testing, production-failures) ever been tested against the strategy used? In other words; how effective was the risk based test strategy used?

This presentation will show you how you can measure:

  • the damage prevented (in euro’s)
  • the effectiveness of the risk based strategy used

In this real-life example a risk based test strategy was set up that was to be used in a project in which was worked with time-boxes. The basis of this strategy was a list of all processes that needed to be tested with individual relative business risk-scores. The test strategy for each time-box consisted of "simply" start testing the processes with the highest business risk-scores.

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