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Test Maturity Model IntegrationContributors
Doug Ashworth
(UK)
Stuart Baker
(UK)
Jan Jaap Cannegieter
(The Netherlands)
Laura Casci
(UK)
Vicky Chen
(Canada)
Jerry E Durant
(USA)
Akhila E. K
(India)
Attila Fekete
(Sweden)
Thomas George
(India)
Andrew Goslin
(UK)
Murali Krishnan
(India)
Adrian Howes
(UK)
Klaus Olsen
(Denmark)
Fran O’Hara
(Ireland)
Simon Lamers
(Germany)
Hareton Leung
(Hong Kong)Robert Magnussion
(Sweden)
Nico van Mourik
(The Netherlands)
Bill McGir
(USA)
Judy McKay
(USA)
Mac Miller
(UK)
Sandhya Nagaraj
(India)
Viswanathan Narayana Iyer
(India)
Adewunmi Okupe
(USA)
Piotr Piotrowski
(Poland)
Meile Posthuma
(The Netherlands)
Meeta Prakash
(India)
Alec Puype
(Belgium)
Matthias Rasking
(Germany)
Howard Roberts
(UK)
Geoff Thompson
(UK)
GregSpindler
(USA)
Tiruvallur Thattai Srivatsan
(India)
Narayanamoorthy Subramanian (India)
David Tracey
(UK)
Erik van Veeenendaal
(The Netherlands)
Nathan Weller
(UK)
Brian Wells
(UK)

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Revisions
This section summarizes the key revisions between version 4.0 and release 1.0 of thisdocument.
This section is provided for information only.
Section
3.5
Level 5
Glossary
All

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Revision Notes
Added the supporting CMMI process areas defined for the TMMi level 5 process
areas
Added TMMi Level 5 detailed description (specific practices, sub practices etc.) for
the TMMi process areas: Defect Prevention, Quality Control and Test ProcessOptimization.
Terms added to support the level 5 process areas
TMMi updated to be aligned in terms of terminology with CMMI version 1.3.

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Contents
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Test Maturity Model Integration (TMMi) ................................................................................................................6
1.1 Introduction...