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Web Seminar: "How to Streamline Enterprise Deployments using Test Data Management" Linda Hayes and Krishna Murthy discuss effective TDM strategies that help extract greater value from expensive data and make validated test data available in an organized, secure, consistent, and controlled manner. They also explain how QA organizations can utilize a comprehensive TDM strategy to provide consistent and standardized approaches that ensure high quality and reliability of large enterprise applications and systems. Join us today at 2 p.m. ET. www.sqe.com/go?0210INFOSYSWS
WHAT'S HAPPENING AT STICKYMINDS.COM?
Column: Negative Positive
Fiona Charles
Testers who point out project risks are often perceived as "negative" thinkers. In this week's column, software test consultant Fiona Charles (an optimist by nature and a pessimist by trade) writes about how a culture of unthinking optimism pervades our organizations and our society, and describes some of its detrimental effects on software projects.
Or check out the Column Archive to catch up on what you've missed since your last visit.
As a StickyMinds.com reader, you have the unique opportunity to download a copy of "Building Blocks of an Effective Test Data Management Strategy." QA organizations need to create a reliable testing process that improves application quality, reduces time to market, and minimizes the cost of development and testing. By using a comprehensive test data management strategy, QA organizations are able to provide a consistent and standardized approach to ensuring high quality and reliability of large enterprise applications and systems. www.stickyminds.com/WNGInfosys2910
NEW CONTENT POINTERS
New Articles, Columns, Templates:
Article: Writing Plugins for RDesktop
Sergey Yakimenko
This article is written mostly for Linux developers in which the author gives a method for writing out-of-process plugins so that its code may stay closed to open source software.
Article: There are Always Requirements
Drew Jackson
It often seems a fact of life that processes are made to be broken. In nearly all the organizations where the author has directed testing efforts--large or small--there have been times when best practices regarding feature design and product requirements were knowingly dodged. Recently, Drew encountered an example of this, where a new report was required to address an immediate need of a new customer. The deadline for completion was firm, and the information needed came late. This article reveals some of the lost processes Drew found in digging for more information.
NEW BOOK REVIEWS
Book Title: The Passionate Programmer
By: Chad Fowler
Reviewed By: Julie Lacroix
The Passionate Programmer is a book that explains how to become the best in your job, which is also stated in the subtitle of the book: "Creating a Remarkable Career in Software Development." All the...
New Blog Entry: Real-Time Problem Detection in Software Development By: Daniel Wellman In designing and developing software, it's usually cheaper to prevent problems from ever occurring (by making a decision at design-time) rather than patching them as they happen (by a last-minute fix after deployment). It's cheaper (and substantially less stressful) to design a system to handle thousands of concurrent users rather than trying to diagnose and fix a system that mysteriously breaks in production under heavy load. But detecting problems in real-time is a useful skill in many professions, including one as different as recording audio books. Read more at: www.stickyminds.com/Wellman-RTP
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