How Can We Be in Compliance without a Test Management System?
If your context involves FDA, SOX, ISO, or just internal audit compliance, then you probably live in a world where:
If it wasn’t documented, it didn’t happen
We say what we do and do what we say
Test repeatability is essential
In that context, specialized test management solutions may be the defacto standard, but they’re not the best answer. If I’m working on a system where we have to be clear, concrete, and explicit about requirements, tests, and execution results, then I would much rather do Acceptance Test Driven Development. ATDD provides the added value of executable requirements. Instead of the tests and requirements just saying what the system should do, they can be executed to demonstrate that it does.