2.6.6 Evaluating Exit Criteria and Reporting Exercise

Consider the complete set of actual exit criteria from the Internet appliance project, which is shown in the following subsection. Toward the end of the project, the test team rated each criterion on the following scale:

Green:   Totally fulfilled, with little remaining risk

Yellow:  Not totally fulfilled, but perhaps an acceptable risk

Red:    Not in any sense fulfilled, and poses a substantial risk

You can see the ratings we gave each criterion in the STATUS block below the criterion itself.

We used this evaluation of the criteria as an agenda for a System Test Exit Review meeting. Rex led the meeting and walked the team through each criterion. As you can imagine, the RED ones required more explanation than the YELLOW and GREEN ones.