The organisation responsible for the Testing Maturity Model (TMMi) industry-standard software testing methodology, has accredited its first UK consultancy.
The TMMi foundation has awarded Experimentus assessor accreditation. The UK based joins Dutch firm, ImproveQS, as the only companies in the world that can provide accredited consultancy to firms using the TMMi methodology.
This could help promote a method of testing software quality that helps firms set benchmarks and easily repeat the process.
TMMi is a method that helps firms avoid the problems associated with software failures in live environments. It allows them to benchmark software development, to make it possible to repeat the process.
The methodology takes into account other stages of the development process such as preparation, requirement specification, design and coding.
HBOS is using TMMi for its software development. It employed Experimentus in 2006.
The bank rolled out TMM across three of its four major IT departments in a programme designed to reduce the number of errors in thousands of applications it builds every year. Ovum said interruptions in service can cost thousands of dollars per minute in industries that rely on financial dealing systems.
The TMMi Foundation, said the accreditations represent a milestone for the standard.
Geoff Thompson, consultancy director Experimentus, said, "whatever your approach to testing and quality, be it structured or agile, the systematic and disciplined structure of the method means that irrespective of who conducts the TMMi assessment the service will be identical."
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