Changes and Bugs:
- Your system has grown difficult to change.
- New features take lots of effort to add and are delivered late.
- Bugs are hard to find and fix, and sometimes return in a new guise.
- Changes often lead to unexpected problems.
- Developers seem to be
growing restless, uneasy and fearful of making changes
- The defects reported from the field are increasing and taking lots of effort to
fix.
- The automated tests that are being used are too slow, are expensive to
maintain, and don't provide sufficient cover.
- You need a bug-tracking system to deal with all the problems.
- Bug
finding and fixing is taking time away from development
- You've tried
several tools and approaches to automated testing, but they've not been
satisfactory
- The tests are inadequate, but it's hard to see how to
improve them, automate part of the process and get real value for money
- You'd
like to seriously test for concurrency issues (such as when many
users are using your web application at the same time)
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Delays before Release:
- It is taking too long to test your system before release
- You need to improve your test automation, but it's unclear how to do that
effectively at a reasonable cost
- The tests take a long time to execute through the UI
- There are lots of combinations to take account of
- Performance/load tests are unsatisfactory and expensive to manage and they
slow the release cycle. They take a lot of effort to change once the system is
frozen for release.
- It's taking too long to complete user help and user and installation
documentation before release
- Screen dumps can't be done until the system is frozen, and the user
interface is the least stable
- The document writers are reluctant to document the parts of the system that
may change
- The documentation is based too much around the features of the system and
not around the tasks that users will have to carry out
- Internationalization makes the problem worse as some customers want screen
dumps to show the system configured for their use, with appropriate currency,
numbers and etc.
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