Recommendations

"The quality of our IT is essential for our business operations. New releases may not disrupt the business processes, they must be faultless. To demonstrate this quality of IT and to give assurance to the business good and structured test processes are very important. This requires a fruitful cooperation between business and IT-department. I would like to stress the importance of Business Driven Test Management as explained in this book. We are implementing BDTM now step-by-step. The TMap method is an important tool for our test processes and we are glad that we as Fortis have contributed to this new version of the book."
Gert Heslenfeld,
Sectormanager IS / Accountmanager Information Services,
Fortis Insurance, The Netherlands

"TMap Next, is definitely a must read for test organizations using TPI Model for Test Process Improvement and/or TMap approach to testing. At the same time, the book is not dependent on understanding of these models, and is a useful resource for organizations implementing risk based test strategy in their organizations.. The process, techniques and tools described in this book will enable a test professional to better balance the test cost with the benefits provided by testing, thus making it easier to get management buy in for the test project."
Ruku Tekchandani
SW Validation CoP Program Manager
Intel Corporation, United States of America

"In many organisations all over the world TMap is the standard for testing for many years. The experiences gained using TMap over all these years and the new approaches in software development are the motivators to update TMap and to write this book. For instance, product risk analysis and business driven test management are added to TMap as well as use case testing and exploratory testing. The "new" TMap standard is very useful to solve the testing problems of today and tomorrow."
Prof. Dr. Andreas Spillner
University of Applied Sciences Bremen
Member of the German Testing Board (SIGIST)
Germany

"This is testing in a book. If you need to implement the practice of testing, this is a tool that is essential. Tim Koomen and colleagues have taken a great and popular book, TMap®, and have improved it in its updating - TMap Next highlights testing as an economic activity within IT and, the new emphasis on Business Driven Test Management empowers the business to get the economic and other benefits from IT that they have only dreamed of until now. This book will become a classic on software testing."
Wayne Mallinson and Peter Sage
Communications and Technical Directors respectively - Test and Data Services (Pty) Ltd
Founder and current Chairman respectively - CSSA Special Interest Group in Software Testing (SIGiST)
Gauteng South Africa

"TMap contains practical, proven ideas and methods for a risk based testing approach. The updated TMap is an important read for anyone endeavoring to understand how business driven test management fits within the context of the end-to-end process of business driven development."
Dr. Daniel Sabbah
General Manager, IBM Rational Software
United States of America

"The Ministry of Agriculture, Nature and Food Quality spends a lot of money each year to maintenance, package implementations and development of software. Standardisation at all disciplines in the software lifecycle is necessary to manage these processes. In the lifecycle, testing is becoming more important from a quality and cost perspective. That is why the Ministry has chosen for a standard method and a permanent test organisation. It is good to see this standard TMap evolving, not only adapting to the fast technological developments, but, with Business Driven Test Management, also answering to the increasing demands of clients. "
Pieter C.A. Arends
Manager Project management, Consultancy & Test services
Member of the board of IT-operations
Ministry of Agriculture, Nature and Food Quality The Netherlands

"I like this book because of it being a detailed recipe for how to organize, plan, execute and control testing. Most techniques are explained in detail, with lots of examples. Especially useful are the chapters about handling risk, and the one about test case design. The latter one is great for system and acceptance testing, while most other literature concentrates on lower level testing."
Hans Schaefer
Independent test consultant
Leader of the Norwegian Testing Board (SIGIST)

"TMap is one of the important instruments to assure the quality of our IT products. That is why REAAL Insurances has gladly contributed to the part on development testing in TMap Next."
Nico Jongerius
Member of the board/CIO of REAAL Insurances
The Netherlands

"TMap is for testing what ITIL is for operational processes. This book is a comprehensive yet highly accessible guide for both test managers and test professionals. It is truly a meaningful help to anyone who's involved in the testing business; whether you have one or more specific questions, or if you are in search of a whole testing framework or well targeted process improvements."
Wim Waterinckx
process manager testing
KBC Group
Belgium

"TMap is the most thorough to help organise testing in large IT companies".
Dorothy Graham, Grove Consultants
Great Britain

"I've been a heavy user of TMap since the availability of the book in English. I have utilized TMap for testing process communication, competence development and expanding the "skill-toolbox" of my testers in Nokia. The basic framework is very similar, but it is now much more useful because of the explicit support for wider selection of contexts.
I like the clarity of the big picture of test design: how test planning includes risk-based test strategy that links to test types, and how eventually various test design techniques provide the right depth for testing at expected coverage. As a bonus the framework suits well to expanding with your own techniques and test types."
Erkki Pöyhönen
TietoEnator Quality Assurance Competence Center, previously with Nokia
Finland

"As the quality assurance was moving from a project issue to an issue for the company board our test organisation needed to unify and structure the test process. TMap Next follows the projects phases and has as a logical toolbox. This helped us to complement our existing test process to meet the company board's timescale. TMap Next also gave us useful information how to handle people, tools, infrastructure and the organisation that in many ways has influenced the organisation of the test centre at the Swedish Tax Agency."
Henrik Rylander
Head of Test Centre
Test Unit
The Swedish Tax Agency
Sweden