Topics & Abstracts
SW Testing Lifecycle; An Application Lifecycle Management and associates good practices context

This paper presents the challenges of integrating a Software (SW) Testing Lifecycle with an Application Lifecycle Management (ALM) approach. The paper explores exemplars of associated good practices in context of the Information Technology and Communication (ITC) stack and their association with the SW Testing Lifecycle. Also, the paper explores the business challenges, with a specific focus on testing that will enable the supply of IT services that would enable product and services to be delivered to their clients.

In the reference model the focus is upon a) the specification of requirements for the performance of the testing lifecycle, typically in terms of associated Application Lifecycle Management context, and b) in the context of the ITC stack.

This paper will embrace and support the intent of the emerging standard ISO/IEC 29119, and will simultaneously attempt to demonstrate the application thereof in and ALM context, supported by the ITC stack view, while considering related areas of emerging practice.
  Biography
  Leon Gerber holds a National Diploma in Information Technology, am a NCC certified Systems Analyst, and have a certificate in Business Analysis. He holds the ITIL Manager’s Certificate in IT Service Management, (certified ITIL II Foundation level) and various quality control certificates (certified ISO 9001:2000 Quality Management Systems and Foundation level certified in Software Testing). He has specialised in process management and have received the relevant qualifications in this field. He possesses a very good
understanding of PMBOK/Prince II, CMM/CMMi, TMMi/TPI, ISO, ITIL and CobIT.
He has served as a management member on both the CSSA Western Cape Chapter and the itSMFSA Western Cape Branch. He has been a member of the CCSA, Special Interest Group in Software Testing and Quality, and itSMFSA as well as a member of the SABS Technical Work Group SC71C.

Leon is presently employed as an independed IT Consultant in South Africa, and is based in Cape Town. Mr Gerber will attend meetings of SC7 WG26 (Software Testing): Comment disposition on 29119-1, 2, and 3 will be progressed.