Role of Testers in Selecting an Enterprise Architecture Solution: An Exploratory Study

摘要: Software testing groups are playing an increasingly prominent role in both the software development lifecycle (SDLC) and long-term planning of technology architectures that support large-scale organizational information systems. The advent integrated enterprise (EA) provides new opportunities for to play a proactive building consistent testable guidelines improving enterprise-wide quality. Given historically have not been invited participate EA decisions, there is little academic literature or industry best practices on approaches testers might use guide their participation. This article draws lessons from experience Fortune 100 corporation whose group used theoretical notions “testability” its involvement acquisition process. It describes how it operationalized testability criteria, incorporating controllability, observability, simplicity, into various stages process illustrates benefits challenges taking such approach.