Annual General Meeting

The presentation of the Annual General Meeting 2011 is available for download.
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Oct 2011

Bringing Testing on Board in CIO Magazine

Our chairman, Richard Sykes, writes in CIO magazine on the increasing importance of high quality testing. He starts out exploring the perceptions of testing and real challenges faced by organisations, noting that projects can and do end badly. Testing however is about confidence in outcomes - how might this be achieved?
Read more at CIO Magazine
Jun 2011

Locate and Remove 96% of Software Defects in Computerworld

How do you locate and remove 96% of all defects in your software before lauch? The short answer is Test Maturity Model integration, TMMi, while the longer answer was presented by Klaus Olsen in a Danish conferences on testing in Copenhagen on June 6th 2011, hosted by the Danish Software Testing Board, DSTB.
Read more(in Danish)at Compterworld Magazine
Jun 2011

The business impact of TMMi in Computer Weekly

In today's demanding business environment organisations face increasing compliance and regulatory risks. The consequences of getting it wrong can be serious, both in loss of revenue and reputation. With this in mind it is time to challenge why most business leaders think that the only party responsible for quality should be the testing and quality assurance department.
Read more at Computer Weekly
Feb 2011

To maturity, and beyond in Professional Tester

TMMi intends to help organizations achieve more effective, more efficient, continually improving testing. The first complete version was launched last month. Erik van Veenendaal describes the final two maturity levels which have been added
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Feb 2011

TMMi Foundation elects new Chair of Board

The TMMi Foundation Board held a board meeting in Dublin, Ireland on October 1st where Dr Richard Sykes was appointed chair of the Board of Directors of the TMMi Foundation.
The Directors of the Foundation welcomed Richard and collectively stated:
"We are very pleased that Richard has accepted our offer of becoming the Chair of the TMMi Foundation. He brings with him a wealth of industry experience both in terms of practical experiences and latterly his experiences working with industry bodies such as Intellect. We are sure he will enable the Foundation to forge a strong relationship with industry and continue the excellent work of his predecessors."
Richard Sykes Dr Richard Sykes, on accepting the role of Chair of the Board of the TMMi Foundation, said:
"I welcome this opportunity to contribute to the development of this important initiative. As we move into an ever greater dependence on the capabilities of contemporary technology in most of what we do in our daily and business lives, the need to create new software and systems that are Quality, that fully meet requirements from the start, is a genuine imperative. And in the fast growing world of the virtual this imperative rules even more strongly - how else can we work with confidence and assurance, as an industry, in delivering the operations of complex virtual service value chains!
"The TMMi initiative proposes a new professionalism to the testing profession, at a crucial time in the development of its relevance to the technology industry as she now is. Our clients increasingly demand it (in Hong Kong, I gather, the Government does not pay unless a new software and system works fully to requirements) and our maturing industry has now to learn how better to deliver it."
Read more about Dr Richard Sykes.
Oct 2011

The Little TMMi

The Little TMMi - Objective-Driven Test Process Improvement provides practical support for organizations that aim at improving their test processes. TMMi is a non-for-profit independent test maturity model developed by the TMMi Foundation. Using TMMi organization can improve their test process en even have their test process or test organization accredited when it complies with the requirements. The most important differences between TMMi and other test improvement model are independence, compliance with international testing standards, the business-driven (objective-driven) orientation and the perfect match with the CMMI framework. The objective of The Little TMMi is to support (test) organizations in improving their test process, to expand the adoption of TMMi and to enhance the growth of the testing profession. The book is structured such that it is written for a broad target audience. It therefore needs to be part of the toolbox of everyone who needs visibility on maturity and quality of the test processes, assess test process or is involvement in improving test processes. The book has been formally endorsed by the TMMi Foundation.
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Spanish Company achieves TMMi Certification (Level 3)

MTP are the first Test Service provider to achieve TMMi certification (to level 3),the following are press releases they generated for the Spanish market.
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TMMi Foundation goes global

The TMMi Foundation announces that its software testing reference model is gaining global industry acceptance with members beginning to use the recently revised TMMi model to evaluate, measure and improve their Testing and Quality related test activities.

"Our association with The TMMi Foundation is very important as it will provide Wipro with an opportunity to be involved in the definition of testing standards and leverage the same to build competencies to serve our customers better." Wipro Technologies (new Sponsor)

"The TMMi framework helps organisations assess and improve their current state of testing processes, organisations and methods by providing a baseline of proven practices and guidelines on how to implement them." Accenture (new Sponsor)

"The TMMi Foundation is important because it consolidates testing knowledge from around the world and then defines both practices and standards for the rest of the community." Choucair Testing S.A.
Read the full press release
Oct 2009

TMMi Foundation launches TAMAR

The TMMi Foundation is proud to launch TAMAR (TMMi Assessment Method Application Requirements) which defines the requirements for assessment methods.
The TMMi Foundation does not have its own formal assessment methods and users of TMMi are invited to submit applications to accredit their own Assessment Methods.
Applications may be made by downloading the form and supporting check list from the Forms page, completing the form and submitting your application along with the required fees and your supporting materials.
May 2008

TMMi Key Notes at EuroSTAR and STANZ

We are proud to announce that the TMMi Foundation Vice Chair, Erik van Veenendaal, has been invited to present key note sessions on TMMi® at EuroSTAR (The Hague) and STANZ (Wellington)this year. This coincides with the release of TMMi Level 2 and TAMAR and is seen as a positive endorsement of the TMMi Foundation's hard work in creating a reference model that can be used by the entire testing industry.
For more information visit the EuroSTAR and STANZ web sites.
May 2008

TMM makes enterprise inroads

As test and test-related quality disciplines of IT mature, there is a growing need to assess process maturity quickly and robustly to accepted industry standards. There are many models available, but the Test Maturity Model (TMM) could provide the best way forward as it aligns more easily with industry standard software engineering assessment models than alternative models.
Read more at Computer Weekly
Dec 2007

TMMi Roundtable

The TMMi Foundation will be hosting a roundtable event in April 2007 for invited guests to discuss the TMMi model and its development. The foundation will be discussing the development plans for the TMMi Foundation and the TMMi model. Attendance of this event is by invitation only and further information will be published after the meeting.
Read more at Computer Weekly or Digital Editions.
Jan 2007

Compuware Testing Roundtable

Compuware recently hosted a round table discussion on 'Software Quality, Best Practice and Governance'. Why is this interesting from a TMMi Foundation perspective? Compuware are considering using the TMMi framework and model for developing stronger risk based testing models for its on use.
Read more at The Register or download the article written by David Norfolk in The Register.

Aug 2006

TMMi® Registered Trademark

The TMMi Foundation is now the holder of the TMMi registered trademark. This gives the Foundation the ability to protect the use of the TMMi logo and will assist the Foundation to protect its intellectual property and materials as the TMMi model is developed and published. This is a small but important step in establishing the TMMi model in the international arena.
Mar 2006

TMM on the front page of Computer Weekly

Marks & Spencer hit the headlines, with a story featured in Computer Weekly in the UK. The story reported the successes shared in a case study presented at the ICSTest-UK conference in September 2005. The Marks & Spencer team has successfully used TMM to start delivering process improvements. This has improved quality and the reliability with which project teams are able to deliver offering significant business benefits.
Read more at Computer Weekly or Digital Editions.
Oct 2005

TMMi Foundation launched at ICSTest-UK Conference in London

Brian Wells launched the TMMi Foundation at the ICSTest-UK conference on 28 September. The conference dedicated a track to TMM, including two case studies presented by Marks & Spencer and Improve QS and an afternoon tutorial on TMM. Brian Well's, chair of the TMMi Foundation, spoke about the history of TMM, its structure and the aims of the foundation. The foundation is a non-profit organisation dedicated to improving the quality of testing and is committed to developing TMM as an industry standard for test maturity benchmarking and process improvement programs. The case studies focused on experiences using TMM in Marks & Spencer (in the UK) and Phillips (in The Netherlands). Both case studies emphasised that TMM level 2 is not as easy to attain as may be expected highlighting weaknesses in key level 2 practices. However, both case studies pointed to measurable improvements showing that sustained effort will bear business benefits. The Phillips case study showed significant reductions in time to market achieved by applying process improvements based on the TMM model.
Sep 2005

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