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Testuff - The Test Management Tool for small & medium projects
2008-06-30 19:52:10
Almost an year ago, I have evaluated some low cost and open source Test Management Tools. Managing the Test Efforts & Test documentation is always an issue for small and medium companies.The following were my requirements for Test Management Tool Capture the Requirements Design & Prepare Test Cases Map Test Cases with Requirements Link Bug reports with Test Case ID after the test execution Test Execution Reports Version Management for the Test Cases Search Feature Testuff comes with all the above features and some additional capabilities to record the test execution and link them with the issue tracker. It comes free for single user.Testuff Features Test video recording Really good testers don't follow the...
 
Software Quality and Testing Podcasts
2008-06-21 10:01:21
These are free mp3 files you can download and listen to at your convenience. It contains various topics on Software Quality, Testing, Development. Some of the important Podcasts :Podcasts from StickymindsRandy Rice's PodcastsTesting & QA Podcasts from SD Times ...
 
Explore the Testability aspect for Java Code
2008-05-22 06:21:45
The Testability Explorer is an open source project that lets you measure the testability of Java code. This is an interesting idea: a metric not of direct quality, or of testing, or of test coverage, but of ease of testing. Presumably code that is easy to test will get tested, and will therefore be of higher quality, other things being equal.The following information over Testability Explorer is usefulDemoProject HomeRead MeWhat is GoodHow it works ...
 
Implementing Agile at a Team Level
2008-05-15 08:05:25
There are many benefits for the Organizations and team in the agile approach. Attend the following webinar on Implementing agile at a team level.Organizations eager to take advantage of the benefits touted by Agilists may inappropriately attempt an all or nothing-at-all, top-down approach to Agile adoption. However, experience has shown that successful Agile adoptions must always begin at the team level and must be guided by a clear, step-wise approach. In this view of both Agile maturity and scaling, Jean borrows from the Lean Thinking principles of attaining total value delivery: perfect your ability to maintain Flow of value, learn to use the principle of Pull in order to deliver even more value, and embrace an organizational imperative to Innovate so that value is forever redefined and re-emerging.Register for the Web Seminar ...
 
Customers are Not Crash Test Dummies
2008-05-15 07:10:38
An interesting Webinar on Security & Software TestingLack of comprehensive software testing makes consumers nothing more than crash test dummies. A majority of cyber security issues today are created by flaws that can be largely tested away in the software development life-cycle but are not. Every flaw that escapes quality assurance practices has a high likelihood of causing significant costs to the end user.Security today is part of quality assurance practices, or at least it should be. But in quality assurance, everything should be measurable before it is meaningful. One of the arguments author David Rice makes in his book "Geekonomics" is the importance of making security visible in the market place; that is, buyers can price their risk through som...
 
Application lifecycle management online conference
2008-05-14 14:48:21
Application lifecycle management online conference May 20, 2008 - Home For a 4th year, CM Crossroads, Agile Journal and CMC Media bring you the Internet's premiere conference and exposition for Application Lifecycle Management -ALM EXPO 2008.ALM Expo is a completely online event that provides true Global participation by enabling visitors with the option to choose which sessions they wish to attend and even choose when they are to watch sessions that they missed.Last year, the conference opened the virtual doors to over 4000 online attendees from over 90 countries worldwide. And since the live conference, thousands more have viewed conference sessions and toured the expo f...
 
Requirements Are Required Reading
2008-05-13 01:21:35
Interesting article on Requirements from DDJ.Dr. Dobb's | Requirements Are Required Reading | May 7, 2008 ...
 
AppPerfect DevTest4J
2008-05-07 07:29:04
The AppPerfect DevTest4J is a suite of products designed to help you build and test high-performance applications during the development phase of the product life-cycle. The AppPerfect DevTest4J consists of the following modules:AppPerfect DevTest4J : Code Analysis, Unit Testing and Profiling for Java/J2EE Applications ...
 
ENERGY for better java code
2008-05-07 07:22:19
ENERGY is a static analysis tool to measure code quality & heath. The tool tries to identify the symptoms via static analysis and then publish a rating. How it works is an interesting insight.Check the following video to learn more about the tool. Technorati Tags: Code Quality Metrics, Java, Static Analysis, Code Quality. ...
 
A Customer Case Study of Continuous Integration
2008-05-01 06:13:49
Shortening the Feedback Loop: A Customer Study">Case Study of Continuous Integration Date Wednesday, April 9, 2008 Duration: One Hour Speaker: Jon Burt - Manager of SCM, Intuit, Inc. Jim Bell - Vice-President of Marketing, Electric Cloud, Inc. Patrick Egan - Publisher, CMC Media, Inc. As more and more software engineering organizations adopt agile development, the need for continuous integration of a build can be a daunting and cumbersome task. Like many firms Intuit has seen a dramatic increase in its software production requirements, from releasing two products in an annual release todelivering multiple products in multiple releases per year. In this webinar Jon Burt, Manager of SCM at Intuit, discusses why and how his team implemented a continuous integration strategy for the QuickBooks line. ...
 
Communicating the Value of Testing Throughout the Organization
2008-04-04 14:21:17
Webinar: Communicating the Value of Testing Throughout the OrganizationTest managers constantly lament that few outside their group understand or care much about the value they provide and consistently deliver. Unfortunately, they are often correct. The lack of visibility and understanding of the test team's contribution can lead to restricted budgets, fewer resources, tighter timelines, and ultimately, lower group productivity. Join Theresa Lanowitz and Dan Koloski as they highlights ways to move from simply being a tester of software to an advocate for your organization's customers. Learn how to effectively and concisely communicate with key stakeholders in your organization ...
 
Test 2008 - Software Testing Conference
2008-03-30 09:23:59
Test 2008 is the first conference being organized by PureConferences in India. Our conference will provide a platform for international and national test professionals to interact and participate. Speakers from around 10 countries, such as USA, UK, France, Sweden, Canada, Italy, Netherlands, including India will deliver keynotes, tutorials, and papers during the conference. We intend to involve academia and institutions of learning with our conference. We also intend to make Test2008 a ‘green’ conference as far as possible. Additionally, we will institute two test scholarships for educating promising students unable to finance their studies.Agility in Testing is the theme of Test2008--Test Excellence through Speed and Technology. It's being held at Delhi in India during 13-16 October 2008Powered by ScribeFire. ...
 
Tester Center from MSDN
2007-10-22 15:46:06
The Microsoft Tester Center showcases the test discipline as an integral part of the application life cycle, describes test roles and responsibilities, and promotes the test investments required to deliver high-quality software.Some cool stuff here are the videos & articlesAt the Tester Center, our goal is to provide a community where software testers can share knowledge and learn from each other about testing, our day-to-day job functions, processes, the tools we use, and the various roles we play. As you look around the site, you’ll see videos, articles, blogs, and other information. With your participation this site could be the start of many a conversation in our Software Testing Discussion Forum, where you can join other test professionals to ex...
 
Surviving a Corporate Merger - QA Processes in Times of Change
2007-10-06 11:21:04
We live in an era of constant change; new companies, processes, environments, reorganizations, restructuring, mergers, acquisitions, buyouts, outsourcing etc. The only true certainty is that our environment will continue to change. In the face of these dynamics, ensuring that product quality does not get lost is a challenge.Come learn how one QA organization successful navigated the sea of changes while still maintaining their quality focus. Stuart Charter will suggest QA techniques to assist you in coping with this change when it affects your organization.To learn more, sign up today for the webinarWeb Seminar: Surviving a Corporate Merger - QA Processes in Times of Change WEDNES...
 
Misleading Metrics
2007-08-25 18:10:37
Come across this interesting article over the Gantthead The software development industry has a poor track record for developing and employing effective software metrics. This is because most of the metrics selected are tangential to the true goal of software development--delivering business value--and instead focus on software attributes and accounting measures. Metrics such as lines-of-code per developer week, function points created, hours worked or budget consumed appear to be important measures, but they have dangerous and counterproductive implications. The use of these metrics reward the wrong behavior; the phrase "you get what you measure" highlights the problem. By tracking lines of code written, visible and unconscious incentives to generate lots of code are establi...
 
Article - Seven Habits of Effective programmers
2007-08-25 18:07:15
Software Projects need effective & skilled programmers to deliver on time without compromising on the assured quality. Philip Chu share his experiences with Software Releases and the comes up with a list of seven habits that makes normal programmers effective.The article Seven Habits of Effective Programmers has been originally published at TechnicatAbstractAs a software engineer, you might want any number of things out of your job - a steady paycheck, the opportunity to work on interesting projects, a springboard to the next better job, or maybe you just like hanging out with other programmers. But by "effective", I mean the ability to complete projects in a timely manner with the expected quality. After working on dozens of software releases, I believe the following practices will bring you there, and while they may involve sticking your neck out, I'd like to think they will also advance your professional reputation, career longevity, and personal satisfaction. ...
 
Web Seminar: Future-Proofing Your SOA Applications
2007-04-22 14:17:59
Source from SD TIMESWeb Seminar: Model-Driven Development for SOA WEDNESDAY, April 25, 2007 11:00 am Eastern | 8:00 am Pacific | 4:00 pm London | 5:00 pm Paris SOA means composite applications - and the best way to design, build, and future-proof your composite SOA applications is through model-driven development. Join Stephen Hendrick, group vice president of IDC's Application Development and Deployment Research Group, for a fascinating Web seminar that explores standards-based model-driven development. You'll learn why model-driven development is the only way to properly approach SOA, how to save time and money through reuse, tips for remaining agile, and techniques f...
 
Web Seminar: Getting the Right People on the Right Projects
2007-04-18 04:15:10
SD TIMES | WEB SEMINAR````````````````` Web Seminar: Getting the Right People on the Right Projects WEDNESDAY, April 18, 2007 2:00 pm Eastern | 11:00 am PacificCompleting projects isn't enough anymore. The real challenge is building applications that are on target, on deadline, and on budget, to save your company money and provide a competitive edge. Therefore, ensuring you've got the right people on the right projects at the right time is more important than ever. That means effective project management.Come to this no-cost SD Times Web seminar, sponsored by Serena, to learn how to use Project and Portfolio Management to help improve, shorten and reduce the cost of application develop...
 
Web Seminar: Communicate the Value of Testing
2007-04-18 04:15:10
SOFTWARE TEST & PERFORMANCE | WEB SEMINAR Web Seminar: Communicate the Value of Testing WEDNESDAY, May 2, 2007 11:00 am Eastern | 8:00 am Pacific Test managers lament that few outside their group understand or care much about the value they provide and consistently deliver. Unfortunately, they are often correct. The lack of visibility and understanding of the test team's contribution can lead to restricted budgets, fewer resources, tighter timelines, and ultimately, lower group productivity. What can you do about it? We'll tell you! Join Software Test & Performance for a complimentary Web seminar, sponsored by Empirix. Theresa Lanowitz, Principal Analyst of voke Inc., and Dan Koloski, CTO and Director o...
 
Open Source Testing Tools in Java
2007-04-18 04:11:01
The boom of Source">Open Source is rocking and here is the list of open source testing tools that are written in Java ...
 
Home of Tester - A Software Testing Forum
2007-04-17 09:40:42
Come across Home of Tester forum today.Brief details of the forum has been shared below.Our strategy to make this forum helpful for software testers is to provide clean and tidy and informative posts. To achieve this goal following measures will be taken: when a new thread has grown up in a forum, forum moderators should compose the thread into an essay with all information involved. Thus the contents in the forum will be more tidy and easy to use. And in the future, we will create a tool to assist the composing.Here is the link for Home of Tester - http://www.homeoftester.com/index.phpBest Regards,Venkat Reddy Ch,http://venkatreddyc.wordpress.com ...
 
Open Source Testing Tools
2007-04-17 08:57:34
http://www.opensourcetesting.org is the best resource for Open Source Testing Tools.Find more details about the site below.Opensourcetesting.org aims to boost the profile of open source testing tools within the testing industry, principally by giving users easy access from one central location to the wide range of open source testing tools available.These tools are free as in speech, not free as in beer. While you will not need to pay a vendor to use the tools, they still have a cost of ownership through evaluation, implementation, training and maintenance costs, the same as any software does. But with a handful of commercial vendors dominating the proprietary software testing tools ma...
 
How To Ask Questions The Smart Way
2007-04-13 04:08:51
Asking right questions at the right time to capture right info is a skill that need to be practiced and developed.I have come across of this article How To Ask Questions The Smart Way and the following section on the groundwork needed for the query is good.Before You AskBefore asking a technical question by e-mail, or in a newsgroup, or on a website chat board, do the following:Try to find an answer by searching the archives of the forum you plan to post to.Try to find an answer by searching the Web.Try to find an answer by reading the manual.Try to find an answer by reading a FAQ.Try to find an answer by inspection or experimentation.Try to find an answer by asking a skilled friend.If you're a programmer, try to find an answer by reading the source cod...
 
TesterQA
2007-04-11 08:50:42
Come across this website http://testerqa.com. Useful site for the testers and classification is good and easy to find the required info. Best Regards, Venkat Reddy Chintalapudi, http://venkatreddyc.wordpress.com ...
 
VERIFY 2007 - International Software Testing Conference
2007-04-11 04:29:41
VERIFY is seeking presenters to discuss automated testing, security testing, and general testing in a variety of different contexts. If you have a presentation that fits within those categories we would like to hear from you. We are especially interested in innovative ways to do automated software testing; experiences with specific security testing implementations and general testing best practices.Send an email to the respective track chairs with your presentation suggestion – see the email addresses here for the specific track chairs The deadline for sending a presentation suggestion, including title, abstract, and bio, is May 30, 2007Acceptance letters will go out June 30, 2007Final presentations need to be submitted by Aug 30, 2007Best Regards,Venkat Reddy Chintalapudi,http://venkatreddyc.wordpress.com/ ...
 
 
 
 
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