The four essentials of TMap
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TMap is a business driven test management (BDTM) approach.
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TMap describes a structured test process.
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TMap contains a complete tool box.
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TMap is an adaptive test method.
The first essential can be related directly to the fact that the business case of IT is becoming ever more important to
organisations. The BDTM approach provides content that addresses this fact in TMap and can therefore be seen as the
‘leading thread’ of the structured TMap test process (essential 2). The TMap life cycle model is used in the
description of the test process. Furthermore various aspects in the field of infrastructure, techniques and
organisation must be set up to execute the test process correctly. TMap provides a lot of practical applicable
information on this, in the form of e.g. examples, checklists, technique descriptions, procedures, test organisation
structures, test environments and test tools (essential 3). TMap also has a flexible setup so that it can be
implemented in different system development situations: both for new development and maintenance of a system, for a
selfdeveloped system or an acquired package, and for outsourcing (parts of) the testing process. In other words, TMap
is an adaptive method (essential 4).
In figure 1 - TMap model of essentials, the left triangle symbolises BDTM, the triangle at the bottom the tool
box, the parallelogram the structured test process, and the ‘circle’ TMap’s adaptiveness.
Figure 1 - TMap model of essentials
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