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How to Make Friends with Upper Management and Influence Process Change This paper discusses how to make friends with upper
management so you can influence process change. It also discusses reasons for change and how to communicating them effectively can benefit your test team.
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Don Oxley, Advanced Fibre Communications
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Re-Engineering the Testing Organization: Get Into the Future This article discusses how updating current processes will make your test team better able to accomplish project goals. Change is good when it is implemented the right way.
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Clyneice Chaney, Application Services
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They Don't Care About Quality! This paper discusses finding the true value of quality and what it means to your test team. Sometimes there is a difference between what customers and vendors each value. Getting the quality definition of both groups to match as closely as possible is the key to a successful project.
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Kathleen Iberle, Hewlett-Packard
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"Best Practices" and "Context-Driven": Building a Bridge This article discusses how to employ "best practices" and how to also implement them as daily "good practices" for your project. The author's goal is to help your team understand the best practice versus context-driven debate and how to apply that understanding within your own team.
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Neil Thompson, Thompson Information Systems Consulting Ltd.
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The Business Value of Quality and Testing Adam Tate discusses the business value of quality and testing. Learn how to increase the business value of your customer approach. Discover how to put the "R" back in ROI. In this article, the author uses his vast expertise to show you how to do just that.
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Adam Tate, IBM
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Techniques and Processes for Reliability Testing This paper details techniques and processes for reliability testing.
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Ross Collard, Collard and Company
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Testing and QA with eXtreme Programming Practices A Java development project team had proceeded to 25% completion using the traditional waterfall development method when they were suddenly asked to adopt eXtreme Programming (XP) practices and continue with the project. While XP may be good for management because it provides good visibility on the product, it may not be so good for developers who have to change their processes quickly. And it certainly presents a challenge to QA and testing, whose roles are not well defined. Sit in on this real-world example and you'll examine the challenges of XP and learn how you can overcome them.
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Sanjay Srinivas, Sabre Inc
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QA/Testing in an eXtreme Programming Environment Extreme Programming (XP) is an agile software methodology that puts a heavy emphasis on testing by developers. In an XP project, the role of testing changes, because tests are considered to be a form of unambiguous requirement specification and are created before code is written. Therefore, rather than being back-end validators, the test team is brought on board early in the process to become front-end specifiers. By writing acceptance tests, the test team, in effect, writes the requirements the developers must conform to. Robert Martin delivers an overview of the XP process, stressing the new role of the QA/test team.
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Robert Martin, Object Mentor
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eXtreme Programming's Unit Test Fixtures: Experience from the Field Are you interested in adopting eXtreme Programming's (XP) unit test fixtures and related methods? Stan Bell shares his team's experiences with the Visual Basic version of the Xunit unit test framework. He then explains the methodology employed in the development shop, i.e., how engineers and QA analysts interacted prior to the application of this technique versus after. He points out the challenges, pitfalls, and successes encountered during the adoption process, and reports on the much-improved defect detection and correction rates that occurred post-adoption.
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Stan Bell, McKesson
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Making A Difference with Test Assessments Assessments are a powerful way to understand the current status of your testing. They 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 assessment approach including processes, management issues, automation, and test deliverables. You too can use assessments as a tool for your own success because they confront these contextual issues and give you valuable feedback that can be implemented immediately.
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Sigrid Eldh, Ericsson AB
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