Company wide test strategies can often be very procedural and rigid, which, in turn can lead to them not being followed as well as not utilising the full range of testing skills on a team. So, is there an alternative…? This article will look at why company test strategies may not work, what a testing and quality vision is and how they can utilise the skills of the team. Finally, it will go through metrics and how these can be used to measure the vision. Teams At some point in our lives, we have all worked as part of a team. That might have been at school sports day, a team building event or as part of a cross functional team delivering software solutions. Regardless of where that team originates from, I think it’s fair to say that everyone in a team has a different set of skills than the ones they need for their job. For example, you could have a ‘manual’ tester who performs exploratory testing as part of their job but they may also have skills in requirements analysis. If we take the