We, software testers are the factual information providers to the decision makers.
Though the decision is going to be made by some other entity or department like project/product management group of your organization, we the testers have a very high responsibility there in helping them to arrive at a decision by providing our valuable inputs and feedback on the quality of the product.
Let us take a look at our day to day life on the road. To control the traffic flow we have traffic light signal system as follows.
Red-A signal to stop
Green -A signal to proceed
Yellow- A signal to proceed/stop with caution (get ready to start/stop)
The above RGY concept is being used in different organizations for different purposes and three such practices what we are following in the testing perspective are as follows.
Case 1: Status Indicator
Status---> testing progress status
Red- Progress is bad; high improvement is needed.
Green –Progress is good
Yellow- Progress is not good as well as not bad; Slight/little improvement needed
Case 2: Rating Indicator
Rating---> rating the inputs/deliverables delivered by the development team to testing team
Red- Things went bad.
Green –Things went good.
Yellow- Things went ok; not good as well as not bad.
Case 3: Decision Indicator
Decision---> may be product release decision or decision to move from an earlier phase to the next phase.
Red- No-Go
Green –Go
Yellow- Conditional Go
No-Go means not allowed proceeding, conditional go means fix some issues and then proceed with release.
If you have some other different purposes of using this RGY model/concept, Please share your thoughts and experiences.
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