On-line TOM™ Questionnaire

This page allows you to submit your questionnaire electronically.

Before you use this form, please download a copy of the TOM™ Questionnaire and read it carefully so that you understand how the scoring works.

Please complete all fields, taking care to get the numeric scores correct. Before you click on the submit button, print off a copy of the form - you will lose your only copy otherwise. If you are concerned about revealing your organisation's name, leave the name and address fields blank.

We do ask you to provide the organisational profile information so we can use it to derive industry statistics. As a contributor of data, we will periodically email these analyses to you.

On receipt of the completed form, we will enter the details in our database and email the results to you.

Thank-you.

We hope you find the TOM™ assessment useful.

About your organisation

Organisation Name

Address

What is your organisations main line of business?
Other line of business:

How many staff do you employ?
How many developers do you employ?
How many testers do you employ?
Annual turnover
Do you develop on mainframes?
Do you develop on midrange?
Do you develop on client/server?
Do you develop Web applications?

What development languages/tools are used?

What development methodology is/are used?

Structured
Info. engineering
Object Oriented
Rapid Application Development (RAD)
Evolutionary
Prototyping
Incremental
Other (please specify)

About you

Your Name
Project or department
Phone
Fax
Email
Please ensure this is correct, or you will not receive a response via email

Your objectives and constraints

C1 I want to decrease the time required to test
C2 I want to decrease the cost of testing
C3 I want to increase the quality of testing (and systems)
C4 I want to minimise change to current practice
C5 I want to get a quick payback

Your symptom scores - PLEASE READ

Scoring
1 means: we have this symptom
5 means: we don't have this symptom

Priorities
1 - this is a LOW priority - not a problem for us
5 - this is a HIGH priority - it hurts!

Ref: Symptom Score

1 - LOW
5 - HIGH

 Priority

1 - LOW
5 - HIGH
S01 Testing has no deliverables of value
S02 Testing has little purpose
S03 Test objectives are less important than development objectives
S04 Testing is expensive, but the costs are not visible
S05 Of the errors that are found, there is a perception (based on evidence) that many should have been found in earlier test stage(s).
S06 Users perceive that they are responsible for testing
S07 Significant requirements and design defects are found by system and acceptance testers
S08 Lack of ownership of the test process
S09 Users won�t buy-in to the test approach
S10 It is difficult to get volunteers to test, to hire and retain testers
S11 There are gaps in the testing - features of the system may be released untested
S12 There are gaps in the testing - testing does not address user concerns
S13 There are gaps in the testing - some non-functional requirements of the system may not be tested
S14 There is no evidence available to show that testing has been thorough
S15 Test budgets are unreliable because there is no rational method of estimating test activities
S16 When testing stops, no one knows whether enough or too much testing has been done.
S17 Decisions to release into production are based on �gut-feel� and not an objective assessment of the quality and readiness of the software
S18 Test environments are rarely adequate and never ready in time
S19 When software is first delivered into test, there is a delay of days or weeks before the first tests pass successfully
S20 Testing is not focused, systematic or effective

Finally, where did you hear about the TOM™ questionnaire? (Gerrard Consulting web site, search engine, another site, word of mouth?)

If you want a copy of this form, please print it before you click on the submit button. We will return a summary of the questionnaire in our email response.