QA automated test development is a software development process although it is seldom treated that way. Following software development practices can make the difference between the success and failure of an automated testing project. One of the most important aspects of any automated test design is the ability to share and reuse code. A well thought...

Test assessments are a powerful way to understand the current status of your testing. These assessments provide an independent view of where you are and they guide you to where you re going. They also highlight what your team needs to do to reach its testing goals. From her experiences performing test assessments Sigrid Eldh covers all aspects of her...

Software quality assurance is a planned and systematic approach necessary to provide adequate confidence that an item or product conforms to established standards procedures and policies. This paper addresses the quality assurance practices that were employed in the organization to assure quality of software product development. It describes the...

With the dynamic nature of today s modern software and systems development practices it is no longer possible to gather a complete set of requirements specifications upfront and set them in stone for the duration of the entire project. A far superior approach which more accurately reflects the development process is to allow requirements specifications...

For a conventional software tester an Extreme Programming project may be an intimidating challenge. Testers often find that they re not welcome on XP projects but Jonathan Kohl shares how skilled testing can overcome such difficulties. Jonathan discusses lessons he learned from working on two different XP project teams only one of which initially...

When you see something that bugs you about an application can you easily convince someone else that the defect really is a problem Michael Kelly teaches a quick lesson in expressing yourself persuasively with a HICCUPP....

Mario Hewardt takes a look at the internals of the CLR heap manager and the GC and some common pitfalls that can wreak havoc in your application. He shows how to utilize the debuggers and a set of other tools to illustrate how to get to the bottom of the problems....

Larry interviews John deVadoss the product unit manager of the patterns practices team at Microsoft about the purpose of the p& p group how p& p extends beyond Microsoft and how disruptive the many-core era will be in terms of software patterns and practices....

Learn how Systems Thinking helped Southwest Airlines succeed the five questions to get you started with Systems Thinking and why you need a product champion....

In this chapter Mike Cohn looks at the importance of two critical factors to be considered when deciding how to structure Scrum teams keeping teams small and orienting each team around the delivery of end-to-end user-visible functionality...

Leo A. Wrobel and Sharon M. Wrobel of b4Ci Inc. and NaSPA list the important qualities to find when choosing a communications system for emergency situations....

Concluding this two-part series Leo A. Wrobel and Sharon M. Wrobel of b4Ci Inc. and NaSPA discuss some of the issues involved in choosing a notification system including a newer option that could forward incoming calls automatically to a working number in an emergency....

In this transcript of an oral history Grady Booch interviews SEI Fellow Watts Humphrey. In part 5 Humphrey discusses his early years at IBM in the 1960s where he built the first automated system for the New York Stock Exchange ticker system and the air traffic control system which are still in use today....

This chapter highlights many of the network design and implementation considerations you should work through while planning or installing a SIP trunk for production purposes in your network....

Neal Ford interviews Martin Fowler and Rebecca Parsons about domain-specific languages why general purpose languages enough the benefit of writing your own language and the difference between polyglot programming and DSLs....