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Attacking Waste in Software: Three Practices We Must Embrace Now[presentation] One of the seven principles of Lean Thinking is "eliminate waste." Eliminating waste means minimizing the cost of the resources we use to deliver software to our stakeholders. |
Jean Tabaka, Rally Software Development
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The Good, the Better, and the Rather Puzzling: The Agile Experience at Five Companies[presentation] Strategic software development is happening every day-and failures continue to plague us. Unquestionably, a major paradigm shift is underway with the movement to agile methods. But are they really working? |
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Agile and the Seven Deadly Sins of Project Management[presentation] Agile approaches to software development promise many advantages: shorter schedules, more productive teams, products that better meet customer expectations, higher quality, and more. |
Mike Cohn, Mountain Goat Software
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Managing Contracts for Outsourced Testing[presentation] In large outsourced projects, the contractual aspects of testing are often poorly defined even though testing may be half the overall project cost. Why is this? |
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Using Source Code Metrics to Guide Testing[presentation] Source code metrics are frequently used to evaluate software quality and identify risky code that requires focused testing. |
Paul Anderson, GrammaTech, Inc.
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Man and Machine: Combining Automation Tools with the Human Mind[presentation] When we think of automated testing, we usually think of unattended tests that are executed by computer software. When we think of manual testing, we think of a human being executing tests without the aid of a machine. |
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Making User Acceptance a Testing Process, Not a Testing Phase[presentation] Historically, the user acceptance test (UAT) is the last test we perform before product delivery. |
Donna McLeod, Safeway Inc
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Root Cause Analysis: Dealing with Problems, Not Symptoms[presentation] Test managers often choose solutions to problems without sufficient analysis, resulting in a cover-up of the symptom rather than a solution to the underlying problem. |
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STAREAST 2008: The Hard Truth about Offshore Testing[presentation] Test managers often choose solutions to problems without sufficient analysis, resulting in a cover-up of the symptom rather than a solution to the underlying problem. |
Jim Olsen, Dell Inc
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Measure Quality on the Way In - Not on the Way Out[presentation] If you have been a test manager for longer than a week, you have probably experienced pressure from management to offshore some test activities to save money. |
Jan Fish, Lifeline Systems
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The Four T's of Test Automation[presentation] Historically, organizations have measured the level of software quality after a system goes into production. What about measuring the level of software quality coming into testing? |
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Test Design for Complex System Testing[presentation] While functional testing generally focuses on specific areas of a single component, system testing focuses on multiple components and interactions within their environment. |
Mark Duquette, IBM
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How to Build and Motivate the Ideal Test Team[presentation] Testing projects have a habit of getting into trouble. |
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Today's Testing Innovations[presentation] As a consultant, Lee Copeland has spoken with thousands of software testers in hundreds of different organizations. Generally, he comes away from these discussions depressed with the state of testing. |
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Practical Pairwise Testing with PICT[presentation] Fault analysis reveals that interaction between the variables of dependent parameters is a common source of failure in complex systems. |
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