In order to stay ahead of its competitors organizations are looking for ways to deliver reliable products with a quick time-to-market. Testing could play an important role. Test organizations can take care of the quality of deliverables and thus contribute to satisfied customers and at the same time prevent damage to the image of these organizations.

But what is the business value of testing? However testing gains more and more popularity, by management it is still considered as a big expense without having a clear value addition. The idea exists that everyone is doing a right job in a right way so that testing soon turns out to be “not invented here”.

Marcel believes that testing has business value and will explain why. He will elaborate on business value, what does it mean in the eyes of the stakeholders. He will give some handhelds for measuring the added value of testing and explain what is required. Furthermore he will raise the question whether the test craft mature enough to full fill these requirements.

Marcel van Donge has over 10 years of experience as a tester. He started his career in the naval industry mainly by testing on submarines and M-frigates for about nine years. Then he worked for a financial consultancy company to test
electronic banking products. Subsequently he worked for a company where he among others led some test teams for banks. He is working for Collis now as a test consultant and carried out various test assignments in divers branches.