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ItemObjective Progress Management is an art and a dynamic process. It requires constant scheduling and coordination to ensure the balanced development of the project and achieve the dynamic balance of the entire project. The plan before the project starts has a general understanding of the task testing requirements, but the depth is not enough. The schedule may be just a time framework, to some extent, it depends on the experience of the planners. With the passage of time and the continuous development of testing, we will have a further understanding of the task and will not stay on rough estimates for many problems. The project schedule will become more detailed and more accurate. Project Progress Management is mainly implemented by controlling milestones and key paths and using tools. At the same time, it is necessary to grasp the relationship between progress and quality and cost, and fully understand the double characteristics of the quantity and quality of progress. 1 . The quantity and quality of progressIn any job, the progress is always easy to see at the beginning, such as building a house. From nothing to existence, the changes are obvious. However, the later it became, its progress became less and less obvious. The same is true for Software Testing. At the beginning of the test, bugs are easy to find. However, the progress of the test is not calculated based on the number of bugs. As soon as it comes to the end, it is increasingly difficult to find bugs. It is necessary to improve the quality of the Test Progress and discover serious and critical problems as soon as possible so that developers do not need to make large-scale changes to the Code at the final stage, the test time cannot be guaranteed, thus affecting the software quality. This is the dual feature of the quantity and quality of the test project progress. while paying attention to the progress, we must grasp these two features. while paying attention to the progress speed, we must also check the quality at the early stage of the progress. 2 . How to manage the Test ProgressFirst, we should try to use historical data to conduct analogy analysis from previously completed projects to determine a certain number of relationships between quality and progress to control the progress and management quality. You can add quality parameters to the Progress Management Plan, that is, adjust the relationship between progress and quality through parameters. Second, the measurement method of the test project progress can be used: the Test Progress S curve method and the defect tracking curve method. Under the pressure of progress, the compression time is usually the test time, which leads to the actual progress over time, which is more and more different from the initial plan. However, with the formal measurement method, this situation is very difficult, because it may take action before it appears.

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