A lot of people that I have met have been tasked with setting up a QA department but have to do some sort of justification for it. Others have an existing QA department and also have to do justification but this time to keep it in existence. A lot of times doing any sort of justification for QA whether proactive retroactive or reactive involves...

Software Testing and software development cycles This paper outlines a number of commonly used software development lifecycle models with particular emphasis on the testing activities involved in each model. Irrespective of the lifecycle model used for software development software has to be tested. Efficiency and quality are best served by testing...

One of the major software development philosophies of the Hippo project is automated testing. Unit testing in particular has played a crucial role in the project from the beginning and numerous unit tests have been written to test the code. However not all application code is easily tested with unit tests and web applications in particular can prove...

An Introduction to Safety Critical Systems This paper provides an introduction to the development of software for safety critical systems. It is aimed to serve as a tutorial for developers who are new to the development of software for safety critical systems discussing the issues involved introducing some of the techniques available to developers...

Team building sessions few like to attend those things. Yet the benefits of teamwork are constantly praised and rewarded. Even this article praises teamwork but does not suggest any touchy-feely exercises to bring test and development teammates closer together. Deborah Kablotsky specifically covers understanding each other and working together throughout...

Monitoring the performance of distributed systems remains one of the great challenges for IT managers today -- one that has only intensified with the advent of Web services. According to Diane Hagglund director of product marketing at Freshwater Software the evolution of enterprise systems away from the client server model to the highly distributed...

This is full book 11 chapters. The main purpose of the book is to provide a bridge across the gap between the theoretical research and the practice in software testing. The target readers of the book are therefore two groups. From the practical side come the software engineers who have some experience in software testing and students of computer...

Testing use cases requires understanding the concept of UML and use cases. This article aims at introducing the user to UML and use cases one of the nine diagrams and how to derive test cases and test scenarios from use cases....

ANTS is a suite of products dedicated to optimizing and analyzing the performance of .NET applications. Choose one of the products below to read the basic facts....

Obviously the goal of this article was not to present the quality charter but rather a possible quality charter and to help you think about some of the ideas that might go into establishing a quality effort....

This article is based on a conversation I took part in on QAForums.com. Bill Gates stated that the 1980s was the decade of quality the 1990s the decade of re-engineering and that the decade from 2001-2010 would be the decade of velocity. This decade would have a core focus of companies focusing their technologies on enhancing systems and decreasing...

There is some confusion about the business value of quality even outside the software development context. On the one hand there are those who believe that it is economical to maximize quality. This is the quality is free perspective that is often espoused by Crosby Juran and Gryna as well as many others. Their key argument is that as the voluntary...

This is an important distinction for most organizations and it also has a relation to the concept of what testing means. I tend to define these terms broadly as such Product Any element that falls under the quality umbrella. This can be hardware or software as well as executable code or non-executable document elements...

The notion of Quality Testing QT is often used in a very reactive sense. For example in the case of software applications people might define testing as the examination of the behavior of a given product by executing the product on sample data sets to verify that the product satisfies specified requirements or to verify differences between expected...

Essentially the very nature of Quality Testing QT is broken into two aspects verification testing and validation testing. It is thus possible to say QT Verification Validation...