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Category Archives: Planning for Quality
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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Tagged bug tracking, data, defect management, metrics, process automation, process improvement, software testing, test management, test tools, tool selection
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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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Tagged data, metrics, software testing, test automation
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Defect Tracking – Selecting the Right Tool
Effective defect tracking is a critical activity in any software development project, and having the right tool to do the job is just as critical. A defect tracking system is a tool solution intended for: the tracking of project issues, … 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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Rapid Test Case Prioritization
It is a common theme in software projects and testing in particular that there is never enough time to do all that you need to do. Given the limited time that you have available, how can you know that you … Continue reading
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Error Messages and How to Improve Them
Error messages are displayed by applications in response to unusual or exceptional conditions that can’t be rectified within the application itself. The need for “useful error messages” can be defined, in the simplistic case, to be a need for some … Continue reading
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Tagged software testing, usability
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Pot-holes on the Road to Automation
Testing costs can be a significant part of the project with software project managers spending up to half of their project budget on testing. But how do you make testing more cost effective so that you are getting more done … 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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Estimating for Testing
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 an entire organization. As a tester, the question is commonly presented as, … Continue reading
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Continuous Quality Improvement and Outsourcing
The credit for developing the concept of Total Quality Management (TQM) is given to Dr. W. Edwards Deming, who was requested by the Japanese government of 1950 to come and assist them with turning around the public perception of the … Continue reading
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Tagged metrics, outsourcing, process improvement, software testing
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