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Rethinking Requirements In my travels, I see many different views about what
requirements are, and how to deal with them. There are more and less useful ways to view
requirements. I believe many people could be thinking about
requirements in a more useful way, which would help
them build better software more effectively.
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Brian Lawrence, Coyote Valley Software
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From Failure to Success: Using Testing and Requirements Management A multi-million dollar project on the verge of failure was given one last effort to create a winning team who could establish a definitive process around requirements management, automated testing, and quality assurance. Within six months, this team was able to successfully modify the existing software and deliver a product with zero defects that customers were able to use. Discover how requirements management can assist your organization in building a foundation for successful software development.
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Tony O'Neill, Eli Lilly and Company
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Unified Modeling Language (UML) and Testing The Unified Modeling Language (UML) has become the industry's standard for capturing software architectures and elaborating system design. This presentation provides an overview of the UML from a tester's perspective. Learn how UML represents software design, including key diagrams. Discover when these diagrams are appropriate, what information can be derived from them, and what types of software can be represented. Explore ways to use UML to facilitate communication among testers, developers, and analysts in your organization.
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Sam Guckenheimer, Rational Software
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An Emerging Requirement Type--Legal Requirements Testing to external standards is taking on new meaning-and a new sense of urgency-when money changes hands in cyberspace. Business rules, which are driven by legal requirements and perceptions of legal risk, dramatically expand the qualitative measures for Web-based applications. In this presentation, discover a conceptual framework for developing test plans and test cases that accommodate emerging legal requirements.
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James Speer, Data Dimensions, Inc.
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Manage Testing by the Numbers Telcordia's Software Quality Assurance Testing Organization Business Model was developed to assist its SQA Testing Management Team in becoming more effective and productive in managing SQA testing. Learn how the implementation of this model can help raise the overall technical expertise of your test management team.
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Sharon Burrell, Telcordia Technologies
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Performance Evaluation and Measurement of Enterprise Applications Today's large-scale enterprise applications are all Web-enabled and complex in nature. Many users experience performance problems from day one. Performance evaluation and measurement via extensive testing is the only practical way to raise and address all issues prior to a successful deployment. Learn how to tackle performance and capacity issues with the appropriate testing strategy and scalable infrastructure/architecture.
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Rakesh Radhakrishnan, Sun Microsystems
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Critical Components of Asset Management Examine how Information Technology (IT) asset management methodologies can reduce your organization's IT budget between five and thirty-five percent. Kathy Shoop discusses the critical components to deploy, the challenges of implementing such a program, and the limitations of asset management tools such as spreadsheets and in-house development efforts. Discover the best practices for implementing an asset management initiative in your organization that will result in immediate cost savings.
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Kathy Shoop, Janus Technologies, Inc.
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Achieving Software Quality Through Test Automation Process Integration With increasing demands for high-quality software applications in shorter development cycles, it's clear that teams need to go beyond simply running tests at the end of their development cycle. Instead, teams must approach development with quality as their primary objective. Brian Bryson shows you how to integrate automated testing tools with best practices to implement an effective quality assurance process from the beginning (and throughout) the development lifecycle.
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Brian Bryson, Rational Software Corporation
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Testing Your Software's Requirements Many testing organizations focus primarily on software executable code, but that's not the only thing you can test. For instance, did you ever consider testing your software requirements? When you test only code, you face some big disadvantages, not to mention that design defects often aren't even fixable because they demand too much effort, too late in the release cycle. In fact, it's difficult to even report some requirements defects since the developers have already committed to the design strategy. But if you test your requirements early in the game, you can discover defects before they're cast into designs and code, consequently saving your organization potentially huge rework costs.
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Brian Lawrence, Coyote Valley Software
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Software Documentation Superstitions Do you need credible evidence that disciplined document reviews (a.k.a. inspections) can keep total project costs down while helping you meet the schedule and improve quality? The project documentation we actually need should meet predetermined quality criteria, but organizations are often superstitious about writing this documentation-and they let their superstitions inhibit their efforts. This presentation dispels the superstitions and shows you how reinforcements for improving the quality of your software project documentation-such as requirements, design, and test plans/procedures-can occur through disciplined document reviews.
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Gregory Daich, Software Technology Support Center
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