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Weekend Engagement In "Growing Your Career in Tough Times," Fiona Charles writes about some of the free and low-cost things testers can do for professional development when money isn't available for courses and conferences. In this column, she describes two examples of the amazing things some testers get up to on the weekend to practice their craft, develop their skills and knowledge, and have a great deal of fun. |
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Don't Believe Everything You Read! There are volumes of written material covering just about every aspect of software engineering. Books, articles, magazines, conference proceedings, Web sites, and other rich sources of information are readily available to those learning about our profession. However, based on personal experience and observation, Ed Weller is compelled to ask how much of this information is actually misinformation. Anytime you collect data you must proceed with caution! In this article, we'll find out why Ed questions validity and accuracy and what you can do next time you're faced with questionable material. |
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Design and Code Inspection Metrics In this study, historical inspection data from large real-time embedded systems were analyzed with the intention of improving the current review process. |
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The Seven Habits of Highly Insecure Software Severe functional bugs usually have pretty overt symptoms: an application crash, corrupt data, and screen corruption. Security bugs, though, usually have more subtle symptoms and habits. This article discusses the most common and difficult-to-notice symptoms of insecure software to help you track down these bugs during testing. |
Herbert H. Thompson
August 15, 2003 |
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Prepare to Succeed Another pair of eyes will find bugs, but code reviews are traditionally time consuming and painful. Learn how modern, lightweight techniques make code reviews effective and practical. |
Jason Cohen
October 28, 2009 |
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Adapting Inspections to the Twenty-first Century How do you adapt inspections to a twenty-first century distributed workforce? A key part of the inspection process is the team meeting, which provides peer pressure to participate and consensus on defects. Teams working in multiple time zones have limited opportunities for the team meeting. A list of requirements and the functions needed to solve this problem based on real-world experiences should help anyone faced with this problem. |
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Rising Above the 7 Percent Rule Afraid of what you're missing by testing only 7 percent of your code? Forget your formal code inspections; Jason Cohen enlightens us on the merits of bringing lightweight code inspection to your organization. |
Jason Cohen
March 27, 2007 |
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Support for Testing, Testing for Support Where supportability and testability fit in the Quality Criteria dimension of the Heuristic Test Strategy Model. |
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