Abstract:
The growth of software industry in Pakistan is very impressive from the past decade.
However, to sustain this growth and to deliver high quality software, software development organizations need to follow rigorous quality assurance practices. The primary purpose of this research is to assess the current quality assurance practices in the Pakistani software industry and to try find out the solution. The most important, software testing phase, is usually compromised by the lack of resources and planning in software development industries. This may risk the quality of the derived products. Another dimension to contention is that we have research and development for larger setups and for more matured software development practices. The main growth is in the small and medium sector enterprises where software testing is carried out as an ad-hoc or an add-on activity. Existing TMMi, is hard to use by most small software development organizations in Pakistan. Moreover, some companies do not have their own teams in charge of testing. To solve this issue, we proposed a simplified test maturity model for small Scale software development organizations in local environment. To overcome the issues, we have proposed a lighter version for Small Scale enterprises, by conducting three surveys on different times, first was conducted to find out the current position of software enterprises and to extract the small-scale companies. Then the main survey of this research was conducted, through an online research tool (Google forms), to check the knowledge of these Small-Scale Enterprises about TMMi and to find out which key practice areas may be useful for such companies. Then, a model was proposed and given to different companies to check how useful it is, by conducting a third survey.
