MSTARTM Mosaics Structured Testing and Assessment Repository Mosaics

MSTARTM (Mosaic’s Structured Testing and Assessment Repository) “Mosaic’s risk based testing methodology, MSTAR , provides a consistent process that ensures that our testing resources are allocated where they will have the most impact. The samples, templates, and detailed guidance provided by MSTAR make it easy for our staff to use the best testing practices on all our mission critical systems. ” Director of QA Major Financial Exchange © 2000 Mosaic, Inc. Learn more

MSTAR™ - Improve Testing Effectiveness • Testing is a LARGE commitment – 40% or more of the development effort • Pressures are increasing to: – Test More – Test Faster – Control Costs Ø MSTAR™ shows you how to test more effectively and more efficiently. © 2000 Mosaic, Inc. Continue presentation

MSTAR™ - Get Control of the Testing Process • Focus on risk – Allocate resources where they are needed most – Measure testing progress and communicate status to management • Provide easy access to best practices: – Improve efficiency – Standardize process – Transfer knowledge © 2000 Mosaic, Inc. Continue presentation

Introducing MSTARTM Mosaic’s field-proven testing process is now available in a product called MSTAR™ — Mosaic’s Structured Testing and Assessment Repository. MSTAR™ is a browser-based process asset library for testing. It is easily viewed from an intranet, network, local drive or CD through any standard browser (e. g. Internet Explorer). MSTAR™ includes a© 2000 comprehensive set of supporting samples and templates. Mosaic, Inc. Continue presentation

Why MSTAR™? Why MSTARTM ? • Embodies Mosaic's testing methodology — the most advanced in the industry. • Field-proven on mainframe, client/server, PC and Web systems. • Applies to projects of all sizes, applications and technologies. • Provides easy access to samples, templates, and best practices. • Facilitates addition of your organization’s samples, templates, and best practices. • Provides a proven, efficient © 2000 Mosaic, Inc. and consistent testing process.

The MAP MSTAR™ contains a series of pages in hierarchical structure. A MAP, displayed at the top of each page, provides an overview of the entire repository. © 2000 Mosaic, Inc.

Map’s Purpose MAP Each box on the map provides access to a specific page. © 2000 Mosaic, Inc.

Assessing Pages Click Here Master Test Strategy Hovering over a box shows the page title © 2000 Mosaic, Inc. and clicking accesses that page. Click as indicated by “Click Here” above

Page Highlighting The current page is always highlighted on the map in yellow. © 2000 Mosaic, Inc.

MSTAR™ Paths MSTARTM has two paths: The top path is the overview path. This path provides an overview of the testing process for new testers or management, or for experienced testers interested in a review of concepts. © 2000 Mosaic, Inc.

Practitioner’s Path MSTARTM has two paths: The bottom path is the practitioners’ path, organized by deliverables to allow quick access to information for preparing the deliverables. © 2000 Mosaic, Inc.

MSTAR™ Presentation Menu Click a specific subject area of interest or click the arrow below to continue with the presentation. • Using MSTAR™ • Accessing Company Specific Testing Assets • Additional Navigation Aids – Table of Contents and Index • Summary © 2000 Mosaic, Inc. Continue with next topic

Go Directly to Topic Master Test Strategy The Practitioners’ Path: You can go directly to topics for the deliverable being prepared. For example, if you are preparing a Master Test Strategy, you can go directly to the Master Test Strategy topic. Creating a Master Test Strategy allows testing to be structured to meet the needs and risks of the project. © 2000 Mosaic, Inc.

Master Test Strategy This topic provides a description of the Master Test Strategy deliverable. It also provides access to more detailed topics, samples and templates to support the creation of a Master Test Strategy. © 2000 Mosaic, Inc.

View Sequentially From the Master Test Strategy topic, you can view all topics sequentially … © 2000 Mosaic, Inc.

View Specific Topic Define Test Automation Strategy Or go directly to a specific topic of interest. For example, you can directly access the Test Automation Strategy topic. © 2000 Mosaic, Inc.

Automation Strategy The Test Automation Strategy topic provides guidelines on planning for test automation. The MSTAR testing methodology was used to automate over 50% of the regression testing of a mission critical system. This resulted in a more efficient testing process and almost halved the time it takes to regression©test system. 2000 the Mosaic, Inc.

Open a Sample In addition to viewing topics, you may open and view a sample to help you develop your own Master Test Strategy. © 2000 Mosaic, Inc.

View Section The sample provides a complete Master Test Strategy for a sample application. If you are uncertain about the contents of any section of the Master Test Strategy, that section of the Sample or Template can be reviewed. © 2000 Mosaic, Inc.

View Build Strategy For example, if you need guidance with the build strategy you can use the Table of © 2000 Mosaic, Inc. Contents to go directly to the section called “Build Strategy”.

Build Strategy The Build Strategy supports incremental testing with benefits of reduced risk and earlier, 2000 Mosaic, Inc. more efficient ©testing.

Working with Pages When developing a Master Test Strategy, from your desktop you can work with. . . © 2000 Mosaic, Inc.

View Sample the Sample © 2000 Mosaic, Inc.

View Template the Template © 2000 Mosaic, Inc.

View MSTAR and refer to MSTARTM for further guidelines. © 2000 Mosaic, Inc.

Toggle All Three And you can toggle among all three references on the desktop as you prepare the © 2000 Mosaic, Inc. deliverable.

MSTAR™ Menu of Topics Click a specific topic or click the arrow below to continue with the presentation. • Using MSTAR™ • Accessing Company Specific Testing Assets • Additional Navigation Aids – Table of Contents and Index • Summary © 2000 Mosaic, Inc. Continue with next topic

Company Specific In addition to Mosaic samples and templates, links within MSTAR™ provide access to: • Your company’s best practice samples, templates and deliverables, and • Deliverables repositories specific to projects within your organization. © 2000 Mosaic, Inc.

Repository for Company The Company Testing Best Practices Deliverables Repository provides a separate repository for easy addition of your company’s samples, templates and best practices. It is linked with the MSTAR™ repository to provide a seamless repository for testing best practices. It also allows you to click on a link to access an index of project deliverables repositories. © 2000 Mosaic, Inc.

Project Deliverable Index The Project Specific Deliverables Repository Index provides access to separate repositories for deliverables associated with your company’s projects. For example, clicking on the link for Project A … © 2000 Mosaic, Inc.

Project A Repository Opens the deliverables repository for Project A. MSTAR™ supports creation of these repositories to provide seamless access to the deliverables for individual projects. © 2000 Mosaic, Inc.

MSTAR™ Menu of Topics Click a specific topic or click the arrow below to continue with the presentation. • Using MSTAR™ • Accessing Company-Specific Testing Assets • Additional Navigation Aids – Table of Contents and Index • Summary © 2000 Mosaic, Inc. Continue with next topic

Accessing the TOC- Index MSTAR™ is designed for easy navigation. In addition to navigation through the Map and embedded links, MSTAR™ provides a Table of Contents, Index and Search capability. A link at the bottom of each page provides access to this additional navigation aid. © 2000 Mosaic, Inc.

Table of Contents The Table of Contents provides a complete view of the repository similar to the Map but in Table of Contents format. The Table of Contents can be collapsed or expanded as desired. For example, clicking on the plus sign before© 2000 Master Test Mosaic, Inc. Strategy …

Table of Contents Expansion Expands the Master Test Strategy topic so its direct sub-topics are listed. © 2000 Mosaic, Inc.

Accessing a Topic Clicking on a topic within the Table of Contents … © 2000 Mosaic, Inc.

Access Test Levels From TOC Displays the page on the right. In this case, Define Test Levels is displayed. © 2000 Mosaic, Inc.

Index The Index allows you to locate a topic by entering a keyword. Double-clicking on any term in the Index will display the page in which that topic is discussed. © 2000 Mosaic, Inc.

Access Page Through Index In this case, clicking on scripts displays the Design Test Automation Components topic, which discusses script design. © 2000 Mosaic, Inc.

Summary MSTARTM is a comprehensive repository of Mosaic’s testing expertise. MSTARTM makes it easy for you to add your organization’s best practices to the repository. © 2000 Mosaic, Inc.

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