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"Ensuring Business Value from Distributed Testing in an Agile Environment" The latest Web seminar brought to you by StickyMinds.com and Better Software magazine * Sponsored by Cognizant * In agile environments and across distributed teams, prioritizing and communicating values becomes imperative to ensure the right product is developed. For such teams, storyboards that clearly state the business value are of tremendous value to everyone on the project: to stakeholders, testers, project managers, and the customers. Business value is the key metric that every team member should be following. Join us Thursday July 24, at 11 a.m. ET, when speakers Pollyanna Pixton and Shiva Balasubramaniyan describe how clearly defined business values help distributed teams succeed. Register and attend this Web seminar to be automatically entered into our drawing for a StickyMinds.com PowerPass. http://www.sqe.com/go?WS072408SL Gartner: "MarketScope for
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“The first rule of tinkering is to save all the parts” ~Paul Elrich
Real-World Math By Danny Faught Math is often not easy to learn, even for those of us who enjoy it. And if you don't use your mathematical knowledge, you just might forget how to use it. Danny Faught likes math and has found ways of using basic math like algebra, the modulo function, expected values, and logarithms in testing. It's kept his mind fresh on mathematical concepts and formulas, and he hopes it will do the same for you. In this week's column, Danny explains how to use math to improve testing. Does Exploratory Testing Have a Place on Agile Teams? By Johanna Rothman Exploratory testingquestioning and learning about the product as you design and execute tests rather than slavishly following predefined scripts—makes sense for many projects. But does it make sense for agile projects? In this column, Johanna Rothman examines how exploratory testing might work on an agile project. Making Sense of Root Cause Analysis By Ed Weller Applying Root Cause Analysis (RCA) to software problems is fundamentally different from applying it to other engineering disciplines. Rather than analyzing a single major failure, we are usually analyzing a large number of failures with software. In this column, Ed Weller explains how to use RCA to your advantage. Podcast series presents ...
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Tinkerable Software By Brian Marick Brian Marick argues that the benefits of "tinkerable" software are lower maintenance costs, contributions from a vibrant user community, and more readily testable products. Back to Top
Confessions of a Tinkerer I want to
come clean about a bad habit of mine: I am a habitual tinkerer. Some of my tinkering causes no harm, like when I resealed and adjusted a carburetor with little to no mechanical knowledge
and it worked afterward. Or the times when I use recipes as guidelines instead of step-by-step instructions and ended up with a wonderful meal. Then there are times when my tinkering does more harm than good. I once challenged myself to take apart a perfectly good wind-up alarm clock and rebuild it. The clock never worked again. There are also many times when my experimental meals result in inedible food. Francesca Matteu For more articles on time and project management, software development, and testing, peruse the StickyLetter archive. Back to Top
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