Table of Contents

Introduction. Influences: External Business Pressures for Profitability. Influences: Internal Development Interaction. Focus: Test as a Means of Recapturing Requirements. Complexity: An Overview of a Modern System. Structure of the Test Component: Integration to Product Acceptance. Work Flow: Integration Planning and Execution. Work Flow: System Verification in Record Time. Work Flow: Interoperability Teasing to Complete the Whole Product. Work Flow: Pre-Mature Deployment and Supporting the Catastrophe. Organizational Shape: For Aggressive Companies. Politics of the Test Manager: Delivering the Bad News and Thriving. Staffing a Test Organization: Attracting the Best to an Unglorified Calling. Tools for the Manager: Test Case Archiving/Defect Management.