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Quality Assurance Testing Dashboards

Designing successful executive dashboard layouts requires one to study as many digitial dashboards as possible. It is through flipping through as many dashboard examples from as many different companies, departments and use cases as possible that one can get a sense as to the different types of approaches to this highly visual art.

Today we look at a couple of dashboards from the world of QA testing. In particular, we look into the idea of participatory testing in the context of testing open source software.

The O’Reilly article linked to above explains the particular challenges of tracking testing processes for highly distributed software construction efforts. Think you have it tough coordinating builds and releases at your company? Now imagine increasing your development team to encompass worldwide participants all with feature ideas and contributions.

Here is the dashboard used by the SpikeSource product to track federated testing efforts:

Federated QA testing Dashboard

And here is an alerts dashboard that shows both state (via red/green/yellow lights) and the stage of the testing process that the alert is raised in:

QA Testing Alerts Dashboard

Tags: QA Testing Dashboard, Dashboard Design, Quality testing dashboards, enterprise dashboard design, qa dashboard

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