In this chapter from his book on software quality engineering, Stephen H. Kan discusses several metrics in each of three groups of software quality metrics: product quality, in-process quality, and maintenance quality. He also describes the key metrics used by several major software developers and discusses software metrics data collection. n...   Read Article.

Kent Beck discusses how to achieve equality using Value Objects, Dollars, and Triangulation....   Read Article.

Learn test environment planning basics such as using an isolated network to ensure repeatability. Walk through an example of how to develop network capacity estimates for your Web site and test environment; discuss hardware and software tuning issues common to database servers, test clients, application servers, and other key web site components; and...   Read Article.

The capabilities of the testing team can greatly affect the success, or failure, of the testing effort. Elfriede Dustin explains how to get the most out of your team, by getting the right mix of people and evaluating the testers' effectiveness....   Read Article.

Breaking away from the traditional role of a tester, XP testers also deal with quality assurance and quality control issues. Discover why these extreme testers are invaluable to an XP project....   Read Article.

Discover the risk-managed modernization (RMM) approach to update your legacy system. Review the topic of risk management and then go onto explore the use of portfolio analysis to select candidate systems for modernization and the activities involved in risk-managed modernization....   Read Article.

The testing phase of software development often gets short shrift by developers and IT managers. Yet testing is the only way to determine whether an application will function properly before it is deployed. In this article, Sue Hildreth offers an overview of the why and how of software testing....   Read Article.

Experienced software tester Michael Kelly provides some good suggestions on how testers can get and share information with developers, to improve collaboration and make better programs with less struggle....   Read Article.

Do you know, for sure, absolutely, that your automated test is testing what you think it's testing? Probably not, now that we've introduced some doubt. Mike Kelly explains how to get from "I think it's working" to "Yes, it's working correctly."...   Read Article.

Performance test tools can sometimes work better than traditional functional test tools for functional testing, Mike Kelly says. They're better designed for high-volume automation, for example (because they don't use the GUI), and they can sometimes offer easier access to an application's functionality. He shares a recent experience with...   Read Article.

Quick feedback. More testable code. Finding serious problems early. What's not to like? Michael Kelly pleads the case for unit testing....   Read Article.

This chapter provides an introduction to Quality Function Deployment (QFD), and explains how QFD can complement use cases to streamline and improve the quality of your projects....   Read Article.

Mike Kelly builds on Scott Barber's work to show how you can combine performance-degradation curves and complex performance scenarios to help determine "good enough" quality for an application in terms of performance....   Read Article.

The time has come to acknowledge that an organization can no longer treat data as a byproduct of their systems. In order to be an effective enterprise, your organization must learn how to optimize the creation and storage of data. This chapter will help you understand where data can go wrong, and how to fix problems when they occur....   Read Article.

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IPL Testing Tools. This paper describes how adaTEST and Cantata++ can be used to assist with the development of software to the standard DOD-STD-2167A...   Read Article.