TMM Appraisal Assistant Tool

Software testing is an important component in the software development life cycle, which leads to have the high quality of software product. Therefore, software industry has focused on improving the testing process for better performance. The Testing Maturity Model (TMM) is one choice to apply for improving the testing process. It guides organization about framework of software testing. The TMM Assessment Model (TMM-AM) is a test process assessment model following the TMM. The TMM-AM consists of processes to assess test capability of organizations. Currently, each organization has various limitations such as cost, effort, time, and know-how. The assessment process lacks of tools to be performed. How to help them to improve their testing process is our key point. This paper proposes a supporting tool based on the TMM-AM which each organization can assess its testing process by itself. The tool can identify test maturity level for an organization and suggest procedures to reach its goal.