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. |
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Definition of Defect Density This brief paper by Linda Westfall defines the defect metric of Defect Density and gives two examples of how it can be reported and utilized. |
Linda Westfall
September 1, 2000 |
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Are Templates Dangerous? When we mindlessly use templates to give easy answers, we're trying to play chess with a checkers mentality. That's David Gelperin's warning in this article. Templates related to context-sensitive issues require a lot of analysis. As he aptly suggests, "Perhaps every test doc template should come with a warning label: 'Not a Substitute for Thinking.'" |
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Scalable Test Design Using Ultra-Understandable Decision Tables This technical paper describes a scalable strategy that integrates multiple techniques into a pragmatic test-design approach that honors budget and schedule constraints. The strategy is most appropriate for large sets of behavior rules and logical interpretations, where exhaustive testing is not feasible. Ultra-understandable decision tables and their supporting entity profiles are used to describe behavior, but the design strategy can be applied to any equivalent information model. The scalable design process comprises five steps. |
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Load/Performance Testing Excel Matrix (template) This load and performance test template has fields for Virtual User Host Information and Test Run/Scenario Data. |
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Industry Usability Reporting In October 1997, the US National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) initiated an effort to increase the visibility of software usability. Cooperating in the IUSR project are prominent suppliers of software and representatives from large consumer organizations. The goals of the initiative are:
This site provides an overview of the project, who is involved and white papers on progress to date. Further, there is a common industry format template and guideline for conduction and reporting on usability assessments. |
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Values and Beliefs as Barriers to Team Consensus When people on the project team disagree, it helps to be able to understand assumptions and to sort through the feelings and the facts that influence team dynamics and the decision-making process. In this article Peter Grazier provides useful insights for understanding these influences. |
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Risk Assessment (template) This template is a generic risk assessment form. It can be adapted to meet your specific needs. |
Mary Decker
February 18, 2000 |
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"Blue Collar Formal Methods" in Commercial Quality Assurance There are many areas in commercial QA where Formal Methods (FM) could make useful contributions, yet there has not been a lot of focus by the FM community on commercial QA in a "real-world" setting. This paper focuses on these methods. |
Richard Denney
January 13, 2000 |
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Test Architecture for Testing Distributed Systems This paper suggests two test architectures for testing distributed, concurrent systems: a global tester that has total control over the distributed system under test (SUT) and, more interestingly, a distributed tester that comprises several concurrent tester components. |
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