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History of Ideas in Software Testing

Monday March 23rd 2009 2am Rated 4 21 Comments Agile Performance Automation Metrics Development Acceptance Exploratory Functional Integration Process Software Strategy Testing Teams Unit Six Sigma selenium Web
Yesterday I started reading Agile Testing: A Practical Guide for Testers and Agile Teams by Crispin and Gregory.

Metrics, Schmetrics

Thursday May 7th 2009 1pm Rated 0 13 Comments Metrics Development Software
Long-time readers will know that I am very wary of metrics for software engineering.

A Brief History of Software Testing

Friday July 16th 2010 6pm Rated 17 5 Comments Test and QA Metrics Development Acceptance Integration Software Testing Unit User
When STP announced the call for nominations for the Software Testing Luminary award, it got me thinking about how software testing came to be a role separate and distinct from software programming with unique and identifiable skills and responsibilities. It also got me thinking about the pioneers who blazed the trails that today’s luminaries strive to bring out of the shadows and into the light, sometimes revealing new trails along the way that improve software’s journey through what I like to call “testerland”.
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Naïve Metrics

Wednesday January 20th 2010 5pm Rated 0 5 Comments Performance Metrics Development
Let's say you don't know anything about software testing.

Metrics

Friday December 14th 2007 2am Rated 0 4 Comments Metrics
I'm overweight.

DaVita: a Quality Culture Focused on Flawless Execution

Monday October 11th 2010 12am Rated 7 3 Comments ST&QA Magazine Teams Metrics Life Cycle Development Process Software Testing Training Tools
DaVita is a unique place to work. The word DaVita means “giving life,” and when asked what our teammates (employees) do for a living, each is proud to respond with a simple answer: “I give life.” Providing dialysis treatments to one in three Americans with kidney failure only scratches the surface of what we do. We are a community first and a company second, and while we promote a healthy balance of work and life, we also expect the highest level of performance in everything we do. We believe the work that each of our teammates does directly affect the lives of our chronically ill patients – and that includes our IT team.
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Delivering Value & the Testing Quagmire

Tuesday June 14th 2011 12am Rated 5 3 Comments Test and QA ST&QA Magazine Performance Metrics Software Testing
Through my many years in QA, I have experienced many epiphanies about quality, testing and what these terms actually mean to business owners and end users. After 20+ years working for both large multi-national and small companies across several industries, I have become intensely aware of how business goals and objectives drive the many dimensions of measuring business value and quality. The nature of the end product/application will dramatically affect how quality is defined and therefore as testers, one’s approach and understanding of how to relate and articulate this will be instrumental in ensuring results have accurately validated attainment.

Performance Testing Metrics - and Bolton too!

Wednesday May 26th 2010 10am Rated 3 3 Comments Performance Metrics Software Testing
SearchSoftwareQuality.com just published an article I wrote with Oliver Erlewein on Performance Test Metrics; the article is available on-line right now.

Meaningful Metrics

Friday July 17th 2009 4pm Rated 0 3 Comments Metrics Software
Recently, a few people have pointed to me as completely opposed to metrics in software development or testing.

Actual E-Mail - II

Tuesday April 24th 2007 1am Rated 0 3 Comments Agile Management Metrics Requirements
I've been carefully re-reading that email, and it is not as bad as I initially thought.

Guidelines to Metrics – using GQM as Roadmap

Friday August 10th 2012 12am Rated 7 2 Comments Metrics
Coming from a tester’s community, I would like to believe – the key focus of all our activities is the ever improving quality. Quality can be improved by either Preventive or Corrective actions taken to control the outcome of a project / product development process.
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Math Behind the Metrics

Tuesday December 13th 2011 11am Rated 4 2 Comments Metrics


Don't Leave Security for Last

Wednesday March 3rd 2010 8am Rated 1 2 Comments Security Metrics Quality Assurance Management Acceptance Cloud Functional Testing Requirements Research Web
At the peak of the dot-com boom, my firm consulted extensively for large organizations concerned about the risks of Internet-based applications. My experience with one client in particular—we’ll call it Company X to protect its identity—remains the most palpable argument for integrating security throughout the software lifecycle.
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Corey Haines on Metrics

Friday June 26th 2009 3pm Rated 0 2 Comments Metrics Software
Corey Haines is more a pure developer-type who does test automation, and he is heavily involved in the "Software Craftsmanship" movement.

Goal Question Metric - The Yellow Brick Road?

Tuesday April 8th 2008 12pm Rated 0 2 Comments Metrics Software
I posted this on the software-testing email group yesterday.

Agile Metrics - II

Friday January 12th 2007 2pm Rated 0 2 Comments Agile Metrics
I've been having an off-line discussion with Jared Quinert that follows-up my post on Agile Metrics.

Interesting Presentation

Thursday January 4th 2007 2pm Rated 0 2 Comments Metrics
Elisabeth Hendrickson just put up a reminder of her 2002 talk "Why Are My Pants On Fire?

More "T" and Less "BS"

Wednesday December 14th 2011 12pm Rated 6 1 Comment Metrics
There's a way to manage and measure effort from exploratory testing. It doesn't rely on counting tests or bugs, but tracking time and effort -- two things we all bring to our jobs.
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