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Testing in the XP Paradigm
A Case Study
By Marnie Hutcheson
  
Summary: This case study follows a new Web application developed for a Fiduciary Trust company. The company had been assured by their eXtreme developers that testers were unnecessary in this Web project. Since the risk of project failure would be measured in millions of dollars in lost business, someone thought it a good idea to risk a few hundred on a second opinion. This turned out to be a good risk for them and a really good opportunity to measure the cost of not testing. This paper gives the account of what happened when this application went on line, and presents a review of the test log, and the bugs reported. Because of the nature of the project and the type of failures that occurred, this project provided a unique opportunity to calculate the cost of not testing and the value of testing in terms of customer support dollars that would have been spent without testing and the that were saved because of testing. | | |
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This paper was originally presented at STAREAST 2003 — a conference produced by Software Quality Engineering. For more information on this conference, visit the current STAREAST Web site.
About the Author
A structural engineer by degree, Marnie was recruited into the world of large computer systems by Prodigy Services Company in 1987. She left her job as a field engineer on a high rise building to become the Lead Systems Integrator for Shopping and later Banking and Financial Services at Prodigy. Since the early 1990s she has helped corporations like GTE and Microsoft develop and launch several major Internet technologies. She also creates technical courseware for Microsoft Corporation and travel around the world training the trainers who teach these technologies to the world. Marnie is an internationally published author and speaker in the areas of Software Development and Project Management, Testing and Quality Assurance and Systems Administration.
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