Looking Ahead: Testing Tools in 2010

It's May 15, 2010, and you're in a triage meeting reviewing the testing status and bugs in your telemedical software. The system uses real-time voice, video, graphics, and an expert knowledge base to support expert medical procedures in remote locations. As the test manager, you're using trace diagrams, deployment diagrams, runtime fault injection, coverage views, test patterns, built-in self test, and other modern, agile techniques to review the bugs, diagnose faults, assign priorities, and update your test plans. Sam Guckenheimer contrasts the methods available to you in 2010 versus the techniques you used years ago when you were starting out as a test manager.