What is Essential Business Analysis?

Essential Testing is the concept of bringing software testing agility to any project no matter what methodology is being used. Essential Testing says test the right things to the right level of detail at the right time. This will provide results in the most efficient manner. Essential Testing is also about doing just enough to sufficiently prove the system under test. It sounds straight-forward, but getting it right requires a great deal of proactive-ness on the part of the testing organization. Most importantly it requires a great deal of cooperation from the entire project team, from the beginning to the end of the project.

On this site you will find information about two important parts of Essential Testing: First, the approach to doing testing in the most efficient manner that benefits the entire project. You will also find detailed activities and frameworks that help make software testing simple and efficient.

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The details on Essential Testing can be found in the book Essential Testing: a Use Case driven approach. This book covers the concepts and shows you how to implement them. For more details on the book and many excerpts click here