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Tracking effort is often a difficult cultural change to implement.

When faced with the challenge of shortening delivery cycles, the old economy manufacturing companies utilized disciplined quality techniques to reduce scrap and rework and improve productivity.

You've just finished your software release. You have signed off, and it's been shipped. You're done, right? No!

Multi-tier applications are increasingly strategic for many organizations, but manually coordinating the movement of disparate components-developed and deployed on multiple platforms through the software development lifecycle-can be tedious a

Market analysts say the economy is recovering from the recession. But it seems that every day we read about another company laying off workers and the tough IT job market. All this has Eileen Strider wondering, in this week's column, how you are faring and what kind of support you are both giving and receiving during these tough times.

In order to control the costs and schedules of new eBusiness development projects, a revolution in estimation and the software lifecycle must take place.

The immediate benefit of an automation approach is to reduce human intervention for regression testing. Automation test scripts should be created to regression test stable software. When code changes are made to the stable software, the automated test cases can be run, and if any bugs were introduced in the code, the automation test cases would find them, thus saving the test group time. When regression testing needs to be done, a tester will not have to sit at the machine and manually execute the test cases.