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Successfully Integrating Test Automation and Agile Projects

On Oct. 7, 2009, I presented “Successfully Integrating Test Automation and Agile Projects” to Annex Consulting Group CIO Breakfast, and I wanted to share that material with you. To accelerate your project and specifically the testing of your releases, test … Continue reading

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Visibility of Value – Testing Within the Organization

Consider the last time the testing group was involved from the beginning of a project, had an influential voice in the development of the project plan, was able to hire for test planning, and was treated as a strategic competitive … Continue reading

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Metrics – Thinking In N-Dimensions

I presented “Metrics – Thinking in N-Dimensions” to VANQ.org, the Vancouver Software Quality Assurance User Group, and I wanted to share that material with you. The biggest challenge in establishing an effective metrics programme is not the formulas, statistics, and … Continue reading

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Estimating Test Effort – From Billiard Balls to Electron Clouds

Each of us has very likely had to do an estimate in the past, whether it was for a set of assigned tasks, for a project, or for the budget of an entire organization. As a tester, the question is … Continue reading

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Increasing Test Effort Estimation Effectiveness

On May 29, 2008, I presented “Increasing Test Effort Estimation Effectiveness” to VANQ.org, the Vancouver Software Quality Assurance User Group, and I wanted to share that material with you. Estimates Provide Visibility to Stakeholders To know how much we will … Continue reading

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Why Pay High Prices for Defect Management

This article was published in Volume 2 Issue 10 of Software Test and Performance, www.stpmag.com If you want quality costs to stop guzzling money, the most effective thing you can do is optimize your project’s defect life cycle. Here’s how. … Continue reading

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Optimizing the Defect Lifecycle – with Resolution

I presented “Optimizing the Defect Lifecycle – with Resolution” to VANQ.org, the Vancouver Software Quality Assurance User Group. Subsequently I presented it to the Southern Idaho Society for Software Quality Assurance and UBC Continuing Studies (Tech.UBC.ca), and I wanted to … Continue reading

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Philosophy of Defect Resolutions

One of the foundation processes in any company that produces software is the defect lifecycle. It is primarily this process that describes how Development and Testing interact around an issue or defect report. There is typically an emphasis on how … Continue reading

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Establishing Effective Metrics

The biggest challenge in establishing an effective metrics programme is not the formulas, statistics, and complex analysis that are often associated with metrics. Rather, the difficulty lies in determining which metrics provide valuable information to the project and/or organization, and … Continue reading

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Counting On Requirements

How do you know what a system is supposed to do and what it is not supposed to do? Requirements are intended to create an easily validated, maintainable and verifiable document describing a system’s planned functionality. What is lacking in … Continue reading

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