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State of the Practice in Application Development: A Basis for Benchmarking This presentation explains why knowing broad industry trends regarding application development is not enough to ensure a successful project. AD should be tightly bound to businesses. Existing measures need to be reviewed and service levels for usefulness in measuring attainment of goals that directly support each line of business need to be considered. Read on as the author details these and other important points.
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Robert Solon, Gartner Inc
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Creating an Error-Prevention Culture Error prevention refocuses development teams from testing
for and fixing bugs, to improving the software development process enabling the delivery of higher quality software. This article explains the importance of implementing the right error prevention solutions.
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Gary Brunell, ParaSoft
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Reducing Organization Stress and Strain: Tools for Aligning Technology and Business This article will help your team understand the difference between internal and external quality criteria. Also detailed are tool descriptions you can use in your alignment toolbox.
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Elisabeth Hendrickson, Quality Tree Software, Inc.
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The Reality of XP: A Real World Case Study This article explains what XP Programming is and how implementing it can benefit your team.
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Drake Kirkham, Cirrus Systems Corporation
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Testing is About Requirements Specification - An Agile View This article details how to manage your XP Programming project.
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Robert Martin, Object Mentor
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Judging Use Case Quality Great test procedures cannot compensate for poor requirements. Good use cases are hard to write. This article details how to develop an effective use case for your project team.
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Steve Adolph, WSA Consulting Inc.
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Test Smarter with the 80:20 Rule In 1963, IBM found about 80 percent of a computer's time was spent executing only computer's 20 percent of the instructions, which was a counter-intuitive breakthrough at the time. IBM rewrote the operating system to make the 20 percent faster and easier to use, improving computer performance. RISC computing is based on this principle as well. Web traffic also follows the Pareto Principle, with 10 percent of web sites having 90 percent of traffic. This article discusses how to improve your testing skills by using the 80:20 rule, (a.k.a. The Pareto Principle).
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Erik Petersen, Emprove
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Defect Escape Analysis for Test Process Improvement An escape is a defect that was not found by, or one that escaped from, the test team. Implementing the escape analysis method for test improvement can increase the quality of software by lessening the occurrence of software defects.
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Mary Vandermark, IBM Corporation
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STAREAST 2003: Rapid Web Testing in a High-Velocity Environment This paper discusses implementing METS (Minimal Essential Testing Strategy) for your test team. METS is a strategy to help get the essential testing for your project done within the time frame allowed. Step by step instructions for using this methodology are included.
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Greg Paskal, Kinko's
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Testing in the Agile World This paper discusses implementing the agile testing methodology for your team.
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Brian Marick, Testing Foundations
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