AppLabs and the Test Maturity Model Integration (TMMi)
Writing by Laura Casci on Tuesday, 1 of September, 2009 at 10:11 am
The Test Maturity Model Integration (TMMi) is a framework that is developed to complement the existing Capability Maturity Model Integration (CMMI). It provides a structured presentation of maturity levels, allowing for standard TMMi assessments and certification. It enables a consistent deployment of the standards and collection of industry metrics. The TMMi has a rapidly growing uptake across Europe, Asia and the USA and owes its popularity to being the only independent test process measurement method.
The independent TMMi Foundation initiative has been established with the sole intent of developing the TMMi standard. The model it promotes can be used in isolation or in support of other process improvement models. It provides an independently managed data repository to support TMMi assessment method accreditation. It also provides Assessment Method Accreditation/Audit Framework for TMMi in accordance with ISO15504 and the process to certify commercial assessment methods against the standard model. Further it provides the certification and training/examination process, procedures and standards for formal, public accreditation of Assessors and Lead Assessors and the on-going management.
As with the CMMI staged representation, TMMi has a staged architecture for process improvement. It contains stages/levels from 1 to 5 through which an organization passes as its testing process evolves from one that is ad-hoc and unmanaged, to one that is managed, defined, measured, and optimized.
In September 2008 AppLabs became a supporter of the TMMi Foundation, after having ensured that the objectives of the TMMi Foundation were compatible with our views and objectives. This initiative was valuable to us as a company, to the testing industry as a whole, something which AppLabs could add a valuable contribution to and help advance. As AppLabs was already a CMMI Level 5 company, the TMMi alignment with CMMI proved beneficial.
On the whole, these industry metrics and information are sorely missing from the software quality management industry and AppLabs would like to be a key driver in rectifying this process outage. The decision was not taken lightly though, as there were and indeed still are some negatives. The TMMi Foundation is still busy defining the TMMi Levels, at the time of AppLabs decision to support the Foundation, only Level 2 was available. Level 3 has since moved on, but there is still significant work to be done on Levels 4 and 5. There is no guarantee that the ‘Industry’ will recognize this model, despite these negatives, AppLabs still felt it was a valuable investment and could reap rewards for all sponsors of the TMMi Foundation, including AppLabs, but more importantly, for the testing industry as a whole.
AppLabs is currently in the process of accrediting our TMMi model and our experienced Test Consultants with the TMMi Foundation. AppLabs will be offering TMMi reviews as part of our Consultancy Service line in the near future.
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