In pharmaceutical industries and other regulated sectors, application testing is part of a larger whole, namely validation of computer systems. This term can be defined as “establishing by objective evidence that all software requirements have been implemented correctly and completely and are traceable to system requirements”. More concretely this implies not only the intention of implementing quality in the systems but that this quality is provable on paper as well. Therefore the emphasis on the job responsibilities for a tester in a validation project will differ from a traditional test situation. However, the framework that TMap offers can be used perfectly in a validation project.

Testing in validation critical environments