Storleken och komplexiteten på dagens system och applikationer ökar. Detta leder till att kraven på system och applikationer ökar också eftersom kunderna kräver av dagens system full funktionalitet inom olika typer av distribuerade miljöer. Kunder är inte bara intresserade av funktionerna i systemen och applikationerna, de förväntar sig också att systemet skall vara av god kvalitet. Av dessa skäl är det mycket viktigt att testa system och applikationer för att säkerställa att de uppfyller kundernas förväntningar. Däremot är det inte bara själva mjukvarans kvalitets frågor som organisationer behöver ha i åtanke, en lika viktig del är själva testprocessens kvalitet.

Today there are many system development projects that break both budget and time plan. Often this depends on defects in the information systems that could have been prevented. The cost of test can in some cases be as high as 50 % of the projects total cost and it's at the same time an important part of development. Test as such has moved its focus from the software it self and its faults to a wider perspective on whole infrastructures of information systems where assure a good quality is important. Sogeti in the Netherlands have developed a test method called TMap (Test Management approach) that can be used for structured testing of information systems.

Today there are many system development projects that break both budget and time plan. Often this depends on defects in the information systems that could have been prevented. The cost of test can in some cases be as high as 50 % of the projects total cost and it's at the same time an important part of development. Test as such has moved its focus from the software it self and its faults to a wider perspective on whole infrastructures of information systems where assure a good quality is important. Sogeti in the Netherlands have developed a test method called TMap (Test Management approach) that can be used for structured testing of information systems.

Ipendo Systems in Linköping, Sweden, is a small IT consulting firm developing among other things custom portal applications based on Microsoft Sharepoint 2010. The purpose of this thesis is to investigate whether the test tools TestComplete and LoadComplete provide sufficient compatibility for functional and non-functional testing of Ipendo Systems? Sharepoint based applications, as well as design testing related activities to be incorporated into their existing software development framework. A test process maturity framework was chosen and applied for the design of the testing activities, while the test tool investigation resulted in guidelines on how to apply the tools effectively and circumvent any issues discovered..