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Functional Reliability[article] This paper describes a software metric "Functional Reliability" used since January 1995 by the Food Service Management division of the CBORD. Functional Reliability combines an assessment of reliability with operational analysis. We use Functional Reliability to organize and prioritize faults, monitor progress towards targeted reliability goals, for estimation of release dates and for product support. The success of Functional Reliability is built (1) upon its design (2) from the support of senior management (3) by an effective implementation program, including integration with other metrics. |
Mike Wills
January 18, 2001 |
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Software Estimation Model Shoot-Out[article] Within the domain of software estimation tools, two popular models emerge: PRICE-S from Price Systems and SLIM-Estimate from Quantitative Software Management. Here, the two models are investigated to determine their strengths and weaknesses. A side-by-side analysis is then revealed. |
James Heires
January 17, 2001 |
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Using Pre-Oracled Data in Model-Based Testing[article] This document describes what is meant by "pre-oracled" data and how Semantic Test proposes to use it in testing search functions. |
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Software Quality Management[article] Every once in a while someone will ask me what I do for a living. When I tell them I am a software quality management consultant, I usually get a blank stare and something like "Oh, that's nice." Politeness keeps them from asking what SQM is. |
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When the Going Gets Tough, the Tough Get...Gentle?[article] Software projects are filled with productivity needs and deadline pressures. As a project manager, you may feel responsible for project deliverables yet highly dependent on others to complete their work. It's common to push, prod, and heavy-handedly coerce your team to go faster. Sometimes this has the desired effect. And even if it doesn't, you can at least claim you pushed as hard as you could. But is that really all that can be done? Eileen Strider suggests another tool at your disposal. |
Eileen Strider
January 11, 2001 |
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Test Team Dynamics[article] As your part of supporting your company's latest product, you've researched testability, created test cases, developed test plans, and included all of this in a Test Tracking System. But, how do you get your Team to be excited about Testing? The Testers are the ones that execute all of your plans, yet they feel left out of the big picture. The Test Team Dynamics approach introduces a management style that helps to motivate the entire Test Team. This is done through a comparison of a Football Team Approach. |
Charlie Williams
January 9, 2001 |
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Looking for What's Not There[article] This column asks the all-important question, "What isn't there that should be?" The same idea for spotting black holes also applies to spotting "holes in designs and requirements." For example, there are often connections between the quantity of bugs filed against an area and whether the area is thoroughly tested. There can also be holes in what KIND of bugs have been reported. Hendrickson lays out the territory for the search and goes on to suggest how to "look for where there's a lot of nothing." |
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A Day in the Life of a Test Engineer[article] Testers and developers require unique skills, which are very complementary in nature. Both the test teams and development teams should understand this to be more productive and to reach our common goal of producing quality products. By demonstrating the value of the test teams and development teams to each other, we gain mutual respect for each other. As we are seeing now, testing is being recognized as a profession by itself. It continues to grow stronger and finally reaches a stage where it is inseparable from development. |
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Building a Responsive Testing Team[article] This paper discusses issues that have proven to successfully assemble responsive testing teams. If done properly, the team becomes a value added extension to the quality process. The issues discussed are not all the issues by any means. Nor are the proposed methods of dealing with these issues the only way to do so. |
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Quality Still Counts on the Web[article] Internet time. Sometimes you feel like a mouse running ever faster through the maze, toward elusive cheese that frustratingly moves from place to place. "Naturally," says the head mouse, "we have to take some shortcuts to get to the cheese on time." So maybe you don't have time to talk to users, or have a human-factors specialist design the user interface, or execute a rigorous test suite. But that's okay, you'll beat the competition to the marketplace and that's all that counts, right? No. Quality still counts, too. |
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White Paper: Issue-Based Change Management for eBusiness[article] Rapidly changing application code and Web content can be a challenge for any eBusiness to manage. Requests from partners, customers, suppliers, and development teams must be tracked and implemented in an orderly way, with strong auditability. At stake is the quality of eBusiness applications, the accuracy of Web content and the ability to deliver both in a timely manner. This paper talks about how to manage the entire development lifecycle. |
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Short vs. Long—Size Does Make a Difference[article] In this paper we describe an investigation of a part of testing folklore: that long tests are more likely to find bugs than short ones. |
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Test Metrics Without Tears[article] To survive, the Test Manager has to demonstrate the effectiveness of the Testing Process. The evidence to show this is required to be more than software defect metrics - how many raised, how many outstanding/fixed by severity and urgency etc. It needs to be comprehensive measurement of the code being tested and of the testing service provided to test it. |
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Trimming the Test Suite[article] When you have 15 million lines of code to test, and you need to get a quality product to market as soon as possible, you need ways to streamline testing. This paper explores how to use Coverage Analysis System (CAS) data to determine the optimum set of automated tests to execute for a corrected defect. |
Jim Boone
December 18, 2000 |
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It Depends[article] Many of us would like a precise answer to the question: "What's the correct staffing ratio for developers to testers in my product organization?" Usually, though, the only answer is "It depends." Your answer depends on your situation: the kind of project you're working on, |
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