Note: – This question will be normally asked to test whether you can independently setup testing departments. Many companies still think testing as secondary. That’s where a good testing manager should show the importance of testing. To bring in the attitude of testing in companies which never had a formal testing department is a huge challenge. Because it’s not about bringing in new process but about changing the mentality.
Below are the important steps to define testing policy in general. But it can change according to how you implemented in your organization. Let’s understand in detail the below steps of implementing a testing policy in an organization.
Definition: – The first thing any organization need to do is define one unique definition for testing within organization. So that every one is on the same mind set.
How to achieve: – How are we going to achieve our objective?. Is there going to be a testing committee, will there be compulsory test plans which needs to be executed etc etc.
Evaluate : – After testing is implemented in project how do we evaluate the same. Are we going to derive metrics of defect per phase, per programmer etc etc. Finally it’s important to let know every one how testing has added value to the project.
Standards : – Finally what are the standards we want to achieve by testing. For instance we can define saying that more than 20 defects per KLOC will be considered below standard and code review should be done for the same.
Establishing a testing policy
The above said methodology is from a general point of view. Probably you can answer the same in a different way; the only thing to note in mind is that you should cover the above steps in broader aspects.