TMMi Professional Certificate

The TMMi Professional course is for skilled testers who want to use the TMMi (Test Maturity Model integration) model to improve testing processes in an organisation, including:

• Testers or test leads wishing to elevate their career into test process improvement.
• Test managers or anyone involved in test process improvement seeking a solid understanding of the TMMi model.
• Anyone wanting to accredit their skills as a TMMi Professional and continue their path to become a TMMi Assessor or Lead Assessor.

• Context of Test Improvement
• Provide examples of business reasons for test improvement
• Understand different aspects of testing that can be improved
• Summarise costs and benefits of TMMi

• Introduction to the TMMi Model
• Summarise the structure of the CMMI process improvement model
• Understand the CMMI model
• Compare the suitability of CMMI for test process improvement to the TMMi model developed specifically for test process improvement
• Compare the continuous and staged representation, including strengths and weaknesses
• Summarise the sources. E.g TMMi used during the development of the model
• Understand the evolution of the testing process as described by Gelperin and Hetzel
• Summarise the scope of the TMMi model

TMMi Maturity Levels Summarise and explain the TMMi maturity levels and process areas

• Structure of TMMi
• Summarise the components of the TMMi model
• Explain the difference between a required, expected and informative component
• Categorise the components of the TMMi model by type
• Summarise the generic goals of the TMMi model
• Recognise the generic practices of both GG2 and GG3
• Summarise the relationship between TMMi and CMMI
• Explain the support of CMMI process areas for specific TMMi generic practices, and TMMi process areas at the various maturity levels

• TMMi Model
• Summarise the TMMi level 2, 3, 4, and 5 process areas and specific goals
• Recognise the specific practices of the TMMi level 2, 3, 4, and 5 process areas

• TMMi Assessments
• Explain the role of assessments with the overall improvement process
• Compare informal and formal assessments
• Summarise the generic assessment process

• Implementing TMMi
• Summarise the activities of the initiating phase of the improvement framework
• Summarise the key elements of a test policy
• Summarise the activities of the diagnosing, establishing, acting and learning phase of the improvement framework
• Recognise the critical success factors for the test process improvement
• Explain the risks behind not considering the critical success factors