Integration Team

Definition

Integration Team

the team that integrates the components of a system or application

Classification

As illustrated in the preceding figure, Integration Team is part of the following inheritance hierarchy:

• Type: Concrete
• Superclass: Engineering Team
• Subclasses:
  • None

Responsibilities

The typical team-specific responsibilities of a Integration Team are to:

• Plan integration.
• Integrate the software, data, and hardware components.
• Perform integration testing in accordance with the project test plan and schedule.

The integration team typically inherits the general team responsibilities from the team method component.

Roles

The integration team typically consists of persons playing the following roles:

• Integration Engineer, who performs integration planning, integration, and leads the team.
• Test Engineer, who performs integration testing.
• Technical Writer, who produces and maintains the integration plan.

Tasks

The integration team typically performs the following team-specific tasks in an iterative, incremental, parallel, and time-boxed manner:

• Integration Tasks:
  • Integration Planning
  • Component Integration
  • Installation
  • Configuration
  • Integration Reporting
• Integration Testing Tasks:
  • Test Planning
  • Test Reuse
  • Test Design
  • Test Implementation
  • Test Execution
  • Test Reporting

The integration team typically inherits the common team tasks from the team method component.

Work Products

The integration team typically produces the following work products:

• Integration Plan
• System
• Application

Guidelines

• Integration testing may be performed by the independent test team.