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Estimating Tester to Developer Ratios (or Not)
By Kathy Iberle,Sue Bartlett The ratio of testers to developers on past projects in a well-known domain can be used in conjunction with an analysis of effects on the relative number of testers vs. developers to roughly predict the number of testers needed
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Software Negligence and Testing Coverage
By Cem Kaner This presentation explores the legal concept of negligence and the technical concept of coverage. The article advances several related propositions:
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Reflections on Scheduling Software Tests, the Project Life Cycle
By L.DiMaggio Reflections on Scheduling Software Tests, the Project Life Cycle
2006-04-01, 8246🔥, 0💬

PROCESS IMPROVEMENT: Case Study of an Improvement Program Featur
by: Robert MacFarland, Ericsson Ltd. This article tells the story of Ericsson, which has unfolded over a period of five years. It describes an initiative that has continually striven to get the reviews and inspections (R&I) processes and procedures it has
2006-04-01, 8453🔥, 0💬

Painless Bug Tracking
By Joel Spolsky Includes ten top tips for bug tracking
2006-04-01, 8628🔥, 0💬

Measurement of the Extent of Testing
by Cem Kaner Much of the material in this paper was presented or developed by the participants of the Software Test Managers Roundtable (STMR) and the Los Altos Workshop on Software Testing (LAWST).
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A Manager?s Guide to Evaluating Test Suites
By Brian Marick,James Bach,Cem Kaner Whatever else testers do, they run tests. They execute programs and judge whether the results produced are correct or not. Collections of tests ? test suites ? are expensive to create. It?s fair to ask how good any giv
2006-04-01, 8478🔥, 0💬

How to Misuse Code Coverage
By Brian Marick Code coverage tools measure how thoroughly tests exercise programs. I believe they are misused more often than they're used well. This paper describes common misuses in detail, then argues for a particular cautious approach to the use of c
2006-04-01, 8618🔥, 0💬

Fighting Memory Leakage
Memory leakage is probably one of the most difficult programming problems to solve, because you cannot easily search thousands of lines of code for a complex logical error that might cause a problem when some unlikely event occurs.
2006-04-01, 8410🔥, 0💬

The Rational Edge
The e-zine for the Rational community
2006-04-01, 8528🔥, 0💬

EXPERIENCE WITH THE COST OF DIFFERENT COVERAGE GOALS FOR TESTING
By Brian Marick In coverage-based testing, coverage conditions are generated from the program text.
2006-04-01, 8537🔥, 0💬

Code Coverage Analysis (test coverage analysis)
By Steve Cornett This paper gives a complete description of code coverage analysis (test coverage analysis), a software testing technique.
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Classic Testing Mistakes
By Brian Marick It's easy to make mistakes when testing software or planning a testing effort. Some mistakes are made so often, so repeatedly, by so many different people, that they deserve the label Classic Mistake.
2006-04-01, 9968🔥, 0💬

16 CRITICAL SOFTWARE PRACTICES
This paper outlines the 16 Critical Software PracticesTM that serve as the basis for implementing effective performance-based management of software-intensive projects. They are intended to be used by programs desiring to implement effective high-leverage
2006-04-01, 9185🔥, 0💬

New Models for Test Development
By Brian Marick A software testing model summarizes how you should think about test development. It tells you how to plan the testing effort, what purpose tests serve, when they?re created, and what sources of information you use to create them. A good mo
2006-04-01, 8615🔥, 0💬

The New Methodology
By Martin Fowler n the past few years there's been a blossoming of a new style of software methodology - referred to as agile methods. Alternatively characterized as an antidote to bureaucracy or a license to hack they've stirred up interest all over the
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Evolution of Test and Code Via Test-First Design
By Jeff Langr Abstract Test-first design is one of the mandatory practices of Extreme Programming (XP). It requires that programmers do not write any production code until they have first written a unit test. By definition, this technique results in code
2006-04-01, 8461🔥, 0💬

About the Return on Investment of Test-Driven Development
by Matthias M. M?uller,Frank Padberg Test-driven development is one of the central tech- niques of Extreme Programming. However, the im- pact of test-driven development on the business value of a project has not been studied so far. We present an economic
2006-04-01, 8349🔥, 0💬

A Metric Leading to Agility
by Ron Jeffries Nearly every metric can be perverted, since up- and down-ticks in the metric can come from good or bad causes. Teams driven by metrics often game the metrics rather than deliver useful software. Ask the team to deliver and measure Running
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When Should a Test Be Automated?
When Should a Test Be Automated? Brian Marick
2006-04-01, 8557🔥, 0💬

Test Automation Snake Oil
This article is revised from earlier versions published in Windows Tech Journal (10/96) and the proceedings of the 14th International Conference and Exposition on Testing Computer Software, respectively. The author thanks ST Labs for supporting this work.
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TEST AUTOMATION FRAMEWORKS
"When developing our test strategy, we must minimize the impact caused by changes in the applications we are testing, and changes in the tools we use to test them." --Carl J. Nagle
2006-04-01, 10275🔥, 0💬

Software Test Automation and the Product Life Cycle
Software Test Automation and the Product Life Cycle by Dave Kelly, Symantec Corporation
2006-04-01, 9713🔥, 0💬

JUnit Test Infected: Programmers Love Writing Tests
Testing is not closely integrated with development. This prevents you from measuring the progress of development- you can't tell when something starts working or when something stops working. Using JUnit you can cheaply and incrementally build a test suit
2006-04-01, 8307🔥, 0💬

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