Test & Build

Eight sections, including the one most strategies skip, what you are deliberately not testing.

A 45-point assessment across strategy, process, engineering, measurement, culture, improvement and AI.

Aim a lean test suite at the places where failure actually costs something.

A one-page version for a team workshop. Capture how your team verifies its software, and revisit it when the team doubles.

A reusable quality gate for any feature or release. Work top to bottom and mark each item Pass, Fail, N/A or Blocked.

Track every test case for a feature or release, with steps, expected result, status and owner.

Trace every requirement to its design, tests and status, so nothing is built without a reason and nothing ships untested.

A shared standard for what reviewers look for, so reviews are consistent whoever does them and authors know what to expect.

A bug report that gets fixed faster because it removes the guesswork.

Work out why a test is flaky and what to do about it.