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Why is it that some software test teams succeed while others fail?

Is it simply the nature of specific tasks the team is assigned? In other words, is the difference between success and failure preordained, or otherwise out of the team’s control? Or is the key to success simply a matter of assembling a collection of “superstars” and then getting out of their way? Conversely, maybe success depends completely on effective team leadership. What’s the answer here?

The short answer is that there is no simple solution. Any team has to balance its autonomy with the need to respond to external governing forces and inter-team responsibilities. Hiring stellar performers can obviously help in building a team, but it’s not a guarantee of success.

This article examines some specific characteristics that set high-performance test teams apart. The objective is to help software test engineers and managers understand these characteristics and how to cultivate them in their own teams.

Characteristics of good test teams:

There are many clichés people use to describe what makes a team a high-performance team: “There’s no ‘I’ in team” and “The whole is greater than the sum of its parts,” for example. These recognize that a good team acts not as a collection of individuals, but as a cohesive unit. However, effective software test teams also share more subtle (and less clichéd) characteristics.

360logica Test team is built around core values, technology, domain and individual and Team growth. We have following roles present across the team: