Geographically Distributed Software Quality Assurance Team Management

Globalization has embraced the world business, even the software development industry also affected. In order to exploit the universe talent there is major trend of offshore development, testing and for other quality assurance activities. Organization in order to save costs, and use specialized expertise has focus on distributed software development and quality assurance practices. Along with certain advantages there may be certain loopholes and problems, if the distributed process and teams are not managed in a proper ways. The focus of the study is to provide a framework for understanding and supporting the management of geographical distributed quality assurance teams. The proposed framework stresses the need of effective team organization, configuration management, collaboration, coordination and communication across team members. The study also evaluates the performances of team geographical distributed teams while applying these parameters.