You want your software to be used, not to sit on the shelf. You can’t achieve the ROI of your software if people don’t use it. And you can’t achieve the ROI of your software by forcing people to use it either. Some will fail to achieve the benefits, and […]
You Are Creating Bugs In Your Software
No matter how good your quality process is, you are introducing bugs. This article reviews the places where bugs are introduced in the software development process (from stakeholders to users), and reviews ways to address those bugs.
Flashback: This Week in the Past on Tyner Blain [Jan 12]
A look back at the best from this week in the past.
Why You Should Test Your Requirements
We’ve written before about several characteristics of well written requirements, and one of those characteristics is testability. Ahamad has written an list of 10 tests of requirements, with an emphasis on assessing the testability of the requirements. The testability of the requirement determines if the resultant product can be tested […]
Agile Absolves Developers
A client at a large company with large development teams and a long history of waterfall development made a comment: “The only people who are talking about doing this project in Agile are developers who think it will allow them to avoid responsibility.” My client may have been right (that […]
This Week in the Past on Tyner Blain [Jan 5]
A look back at the best from this week in the past. This week we look at timeless mistakes: usability mistakes, agile mistakes, and project management mistakes.
Test Smarter, Not Harder – Part 3
This series is a reprint of an article by Scott Sehlhorst, written for developer.* in March 2006. A recent article on dailytech about “new” methods for software testing points to some very interesting research by the NIST (the National Institute of Standards and Technology) Information Technology Lab. We’ve split the […]
Flashback: This Week in the Past on Tyner Blain [Dec 29]
A look back at the best from this week in the past
Test Smarter, Not Harder – Part 2
This series is a reprint of an article by Scott Sehlhorst, written for developer.* in March 2006. A recent article on dailytech about “new” methods for software testing points to some very interesting research by the NIST (the National Institute of Standards and Technology) Information Technology Lab. We’ve split the […]