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Code With Character[magazine] Use .NET generics to get to know your data types and form more meaningful, trusting, typesafe relationships with them. |
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Agile Processes: Making Metrics Simple[article] IT organizations and, in particular, application development departments, are increasingly under pressure to provide performance and compliance metrics to justify annual spend. Unfortunately, many metrics campaigns collapse under their own weight. |
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Taking Our Act on the Road[magazine] In this Test Connection, Michael Bolton discusses making your products portable. |
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Strengthening Your Speaking Savvy[article] Speaking at a conference can work wonders for your credibility. Delivering a presentation is an opportunity to share your insights, convey valuable information, and gain a reputation as an expert on your topic. Provided you keep a few key points in mind. In this article, Naomi Karten offers suggestions for successful presentations. |
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Relating PMBOK Practices to Agile Practices - Part 1 of 4[article] Michele Sliger understands the difficulties traditional project management practitioners go through as they transition from plan-driven approaches to newer agile methodologies. In this column, the first in a four-part series, Michele discusses the initial key area of PMBOK: integration management. |
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Do We Have to Choose Between Management and Leadership?[article] Do organizations need fewer managers and more leaders? Do the qualities of one outweigh those of the other? In this article, Esther Derby defines leadership and management, and shows how one test manager incorporates both. |
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Cliff Berg - High Assurance Design[article]
Podcast
Cliff Berg talks about his new book "High Assurance Design", Agile Development and repairing the image of Architects. |
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Sarbanes-Oxley Compliance: Burden or Opportunity for QA?[presentation] Did they have to create more work for IT? There is no doubt that Sarbanes-Oxley (SOX) and similar compliance regulations have created a significant new workload for IT departments, including many QA/Test groups. |
Rutesh Shah, InfoStretch Corporation
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Test Metrics in a CMMI® Level 5 Organization[presentation] As a CMMI® Level 5 company, Motorola Global Software Group is heavily involved in software verification and validation activities. |
Shalini Aiyaroo, Motorola Malaysia Sdn. Bhd
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Test Centers of Excellence: A Structured Approach for Test Outsourcing[presentation] While some outsourced test projects have delivered measurable business benefits, many others have not lived up to expectations. |
Anand Iyer, Infosys Technologies Ltd
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Design and Optimize Test Cases from Use Cases[presentation] As part of developing software requirements, many project teams employ use cases to describe the human interactions with a system. Testers can use the same documents to optimize test case design. |
Ronald Rissel, Vanguard
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What Hollywood Taught Me About Software Testing[presentation] Powerful lessons can be learned from some of the great epic movies of our day: "Star Wars" and bug triage, "Indiana Jones" and requirements, "Monty Python" and configuration management, "Jurassic Park" and unit testing, "The Usual Suspects" a |
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Behavior Specification for Testing Embedded Systems[presentation] A behavior specification is a valuable engineering artifact for the design, review, and testing of embedded software. |
Dwayne Knirk, Sandia National Laboratories
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Choosing Effective Test Metrics[presentation] Every software project can benefit from some sort of metrics, but industry studies show that 80 percent of software metrics initiatives fail. |
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Outsourcing Testing: Is it Worth The Headaches?[presentation] Although offshoring is becoming a business necessity, we've all heard the nightmare scenario. |
Alym Rayani, Symbio
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