Quality from the start.The platform for quality engineering.
Collabase brings requirements, test management, work items, decisions and documentation into one system. Every test case is linked to its requirement, from refinement to release.
What is quality engineering?Three levels that build on each other.
Testing checks whether a result meets what was expected. Quality assurance checks that the process is followed. Quality engineering starts earlier: quality is built into the product and into how the team works together, from the first conversation about a requirement.
Level 1
Testing
Does it work?
Test cases check a result against what was expected and find deviations before someone else does.
Level 2
Quality assurance
Are we following the process?
Test plans, approvals and evidence make sure every release takes the same route.
Level 3
Quality engineering
Are we building it so it can be tested?
Quality is part of planning, requirements and delivery. Testability, risks and gates are settled before the first line of code is written.
Where quality engineering takes part
PM meetings
Discovery
Requirements meetings
Checking testability
Recording risks
Quality gates
The discipline
The discipline as a tree.Every branch has its place in Collabase.
Quality engineering runs from strategy through engineering to analysis. Because all three branches live in the same system, every result stays attached to the requirement it came from.
Where this lives in Collabase
Quality Engineering
01Strategy and collaboration
Check testability
During refinement you check on the requirement itself whether it can be tested, and create the test cases right next to it.
Events from GitHub, GitLab and Sentry arrive through the integrations. Results from the pipeline and from non-functional tests go to a test run over HTTP.
Load tests, static code analysis and test execution in the pipeline run in the tools you use for them today. Collabase keeps the results and their link to the requirement: through the HTTP integration they can be reported to a test run today.
The Quality Tree Framework™.A model for growing software quality.
It was developed by Serge Baumberger, Co-CEO of Infometis AG, who has worked in software quality assurance for more than 25 years. The Quality Tree shows software quality as a tree and gives teams a path from manual testing to quality engineering that grows with the product.
The tree from the ground up
01RootsPrinciples and culture: the attitude to quality that carries a team.
02TrunkFoundation and architecture, with CI/CD as the load-bearing pipeline.
03BranchesEight subject areas, from Configuration Management to Test Management.
04Leaves90 practices, spread across the eight branches.
05BlossomsRoom for innovation and experiments.
06FruitOutcomes and value that come from the work on the tree.
The eight branches
Configuration Management
Unit Testing
Build Practices
Deployment Practices
Test Automation
Virtualization
Manual Testing
Test Management
Each branch is divided into maturity levels. They show a team where it stands today and which practices come next.
Das Quality Tree Framework™Serge Baumberger
The book
Das Quality Tree Framework™
Der Weg zu skalierbarer Qualität
In it, Serge Baumberger sets out the framework, with explanations and examples from practice.
The book comes with the QTF app on quality-tree.com: create a project, rate the 90 practices and see your own tree as the result.
The Quality Tree and the discipline as a tree
The discipline as a tree, further up, shows where quality engineering lives in Collabase. The Quality Tree describes the practices and their maturity levels. The framework provides the language, Collabase the places where the work happens: requirements, test cases, runs, defects and releases.
Questions about quality engineering with Collabase
Does Collabase replace my test automation tool?
Execution stays in the tool your pipeline uses today. Collabase takes in the results: through the HTTP integration you report them to a test run, where they sit next to the manual results and on the requirement.
Is this about software or about quality management under ISO 9001?
Software. Collabase is built for quality engineering in development: requirements, test cases, runs, defects and releases. Procedures and test reports can be kept in Docs; Collabase is not software for certifying a management system.
How is the link between requirement and test case made?
As a relation between two objects in the same space, visible in both directions: the requirement shows its test cases, the test case shows its requirement.
Can we bring our existing test cases?
Yes. Test cases and suites from Xray, TestRail or Zephyr can be imported with their hierarchy. In the proof of concept we bring them over for one of your projects.
What is the Quality Tree Framework™?
A model for software quality by Serge Baumberger, Co-CEO of Infometis AG. It shows quality as a tree: principles and culture as the roots, architecture and CI/CD as the trunk, eight subject areas as branches and 90 practices as leaves, with each branch divided into maturity levels. The accompanying book is available in German (ISBN 978-3-658-51040-4). In Collabase, a team works in the places these practices belong to: requirements, test cases, runs, defects and releases.
Try it on a real release.With your requirements and test cases.
In the proof of concept we set Collabase up for one of your projects, with your requirements, your test cases and a real run. Then you decide on the licence.
