Towards a General Framework for Business Tests

Marijke Swennen, Benoît Depaire, Koen Vanhoof, Mieke Jans

2014

Abstract

Testing and controlling business processes, activities, data and results is becoming increasingly important for companies. Based on the literature, business tests can be divided into three domains, i.e. performance, risk and compliance and separate domain-specific frameworks have been developed. These different domains and frameworks hint at some aspects that need to be taken into account when managing business tests in a company. In this paper we identify the most important concepts concerning business tests and their management and we provide a first conceptual business test model. We do this based on an archival research study in which we analyse business tests performed by an international consultancy company.

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Swennen M., Depaire B., Vanhoof K. and Jans M. (2014). Towards a General Framework for Business Tests . In Proceedings of the 16th International Conference on Enterprise Information Systems - Volume 3: ICEIS, ISBN 978-989-758-029-1, pages 478-483. DOI: 10.5220/0004969204780483


in Bibtex Style

@conference{iceis14,
author={Marijke Swennen and Benoît Depaire and Koen Vanhoof and Mieke Jans},
title={Towards a General Framework for Business Tests},
booktitle={Proceedings of the 16th International Conference on Enterprise Information Systems - Volume 3: ICEIS,},
year={2014},
pages={478-483},
publisher={SciTePress},
organization={INSTICC},
doi={10.5220/0004969204780483},
isbn={978-989-758-029-1},
}


in EndNote Style

TY - CONF
JO - Proceedings of the 16th International Conference on Enterprise Information Systems - Volume 3: ICEIS,
TI - Towards a General Framework for Business Tests
SN - 978-989-758-029-1
AU - Swennen M.
AU - Depaire B.
AU - Vanhoof K.
AU - Jans M.
PY - 2014
SP - 478
EP - 483
DO - 10.5220/0004969204780483