defect tracking

Conference Presentations

System Test Measurement-What, When, How?

Elaine Soat presents an easy set of measurements to use during system testing (QA test cycle). Examine measurements taken from defect tracking and application coverage to projected testing hours versus actual testig hours. Learn how such process and measurement information is evaluated and used for proposed process improvements. Gain the ability to do comparison reporting to measure successes of process improvement within your QA test cycle.
Elain Soat, CarteGraph Systems
Software Requirements: When They Think They Know What I Want… and They Don't

Pat Medvick presents tales of successful and unsuccessful attempts at gathering requirements from scientists-highlighting the inherent problems and possible solutions. Learn how to gather requirements from multi-site domain experts. Discover ways to develop a flexible software design that permits requirements gathering throughout software development.
Pat Medvick, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory
Successful Project Management in the Face of Shifting People and Teams

The best project managers know to superbly manage the subtleties of risks, employee turnover, personality clashes, shifting priorities, and other unexpected events. And they know how to motivate even mediocre employees to produce exceptional results. The biggest challenge is facing the fact that no project proceeds predictably and according to plan. Learn practical day-to-day techniques you can use to achieve extraordinary project success in spite of seemingly insurmountable setbacks.
Angela Gilchrist, CyberOptics Corporation
Categorizing Defects by Eliminating "Severity" and "Priority"

With all of the advancements in defect tracking systems within the past few years, companies are still using the same ambiguous, canned fields known as Severity and Priority to categorize their defects. Let's examine a better way to assign importance to a defect.
Brian Beaver
February 8, 2002
Software Test Incident Report IEEE 829-1998 Format (template)

This Software Test Incident Report template is based on the IEEE 829-1998 test standard and additional information added from various sources—actual test plans, instructor experience, student comments, etc.
Wayne Middleton's picture Wayne Middleton
September 24, 2001
Counting Defects

Defect counts are often considered as measurements of product quality. However, the most important defect count in that respect is by definition unknown; the number of undiscovered errors. Defect counts can be used as indicators of process quality. In doing so, one should avoid assuming simple causal relations. Defect counts can provide useful information but have to be presented with care.
Bert Wijgers's picture Bert Wijgers
September 1, 2000
Software Development Lifecycle: Defect and Test Case Measurement

This article focuses on how to manage the defect and test case measurement during the software development lifecycle. This should be a practical resource for software developers and project managers.
Steve Miller
September 1, 2000
Defect Depletion and Cost Analysis (template)

You can use this spreadsheet to demonstrate the value of early defect removal. It includes defect depletion curves or phase containment effectiveness calculations.
Ed Weller's picture Ed Weller
September 1, 2000

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