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Building a Project-Oriented Culture[magazine] What does it take to support excellence in your software organization? Taking advantage of basic project frameworks and status reporting systems can empower you to effect organizational change from any level. Here's how to make it happen. |
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eXtreme Rules of the Road[magazine] In the fast-paced eXtreme Programming environment, how can the tester steer the project toward success? Being in a more detached role, sometimes the tester can see a neck-breaking hairpin curve in the road before everyone else. Here are some tips for navigating the challenges of high-speed, iterative design. |
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Are You Ready for the Test Automation Game?[magazine] Automating your testing can significantly impact your business. Here are things to consider before investing in test automation. |
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Trade Secrets from a Web Testing Expert[magazine] If you oversee a mission-critical Web site, you want to be able to predict how many users you can handle within acceptable response times. Here are three fundamental load testing concepts you can't do without. |
Alberto Savoia
June 26, 2002 |
Outsourcing: What to Consider When Supplementing Your Test and QA Capabilities[magazine] Companies outsource for a variety of reasons, with a variety of expectations. This article describes ways outsourcing can be successful, and reasons outsourcing may fail. This is an in-depth article that sets the stage and discusses numerous scenarios. |
Jim Bampos
June 26, 2002 |
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Tracking Down a Defect Management Tool[magazine] Selecting the right defect tracking solution for your business can be a high-pressure job. Choose badly, and you're stuck with an expensive tool that's not going to meet your needs. Choose wisely, and you're a hero. Read about how to rise to the challenge. |
Hung Quoc Nguyen
June 26, 2002 |
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Usability Testing[magazine] Observing users getting lost in an awkward application is easy; identifying, categorizing, and communicating those snags to your developers is the tricky part. Here's a proven method for success. |
Bob Stahl
June 26, 2002 |
At Your Service[magazine] A light and effective process with a service-oriented philosophy is key to meeting your organization's needs. Here are eight simple steps for creating a software engineering team that will turn customers into fans. |
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Distributed Teams[magazine] The world may be getting smaller, but managing far-flung workgroups can still be a big challenge. Here are some common barriers to coordinating distributed teams, and some guidelines for making the most out of limited face time. |
John Suzuki
June 26, 2002 |
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How Good Is This Software?—A Model to Measure Subjective Data[magazine] How do you really know how good your software is? Many traditional measures only look at the quantitative aspects of quality. Here's a model to measure and analyze subjective—or qualitative—data about software quality. |
Andy Roth
June 26, 2002 |
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Meaningful Metrics[magazine] Your numbers are solid and your graphs are works of art. Now boost your metrics' value through the roof with some simple annotations that will put all that data in context. |
Anna S. W. Allison
June 26, 2002 |
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Web Page Response Time 101: A primer[magazine] Online sites lose billions of dollars every year due to sluggish performance speed and user bailouts. Here are four laws of Web site performance that will help you understand response times and deal with your "abandonment issues." |
Alberto Savoia
June 26, 2002 |
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Orthogonally Speaking: Deriving a Suitable Set of Test Cases[magazine] Is your testing effort facing an impossibly wide choice of test parameters? Shooting in the dark can yield hit-and-miss results--and that’s just not very effective. When your testing effort faces an impossibly wide choice of test parameters, the Orthogonal Array Testing System technique can be a very useful method for deriving a suitable set of test cases. |
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The Human Side of Process Improvement[magazine] Interpersonal relationships can make the difference between effective and ineffective technical initiatives. Here are ways to address this frequently neglected aspect of organizational change. |
Judah Mogilensky
June 26, 2002 |
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Customer Satisfaction: What to Ask, How to Ask, and Who to Ask[magazine] Improving customer satisfaction should be a primary goal of process improvement programs. So how satisfied are our customers? One of the best ways to find out is to ask them. Here are techniques for creating a useful survey and interpreting the results. |
Linda Westfall
June 26, 2002 |