What do you hate about Tyner Blain’s blog? ack/nak posted a great idea – ask customers what they hate about you. Seth Godin has a book – Permission Marketing: Turning Strangers into Friends and Friends into Customers, and in his free ebook, Flipping the Funnel, he expands on what he […]
Process Improvement / Reviews / Software development / Software Reviews
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OnTime Bug tracking software – $5 (or free) from Axosoft
Seriously.
There’s a crazy deal being offered by Axosoft. Buy a 5-user version of their $500 software suite for $5, but the offer expires February 24th. The link to buy the software is here – and only available on blogs. Axosoft is trying a social marketing experiment to see if they can promote their products and brand via the blog universe. It isn’t clear at what hour the offer expires, so you might want to get it on the 23rd.
Software development / Test Automation / Testing
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Measuring the Cost of Quality: Software Testing Series
Should we test our software? Should we test it more?
The answer to the first question is almost invariably yes. The answer to the second question is usually “I don’t know.”
We write a lot about the importance of testing. We have several other posts in our series on software testing. How do we know when we should do more automated testing?
Communication / Consulting / Requirements / Requirements gathering
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The Reason Why
Seth Godin has a post titled The Reason. In each of his examples, Seth asks and answers the reason why we do things that don’t have an obvious rationale.
Requirements elicitation is about asking why. When we ask why correctly, we get great insight, which enables great requirements, which can yield great software. When we ask why incorrectly, we can get a great big mess.
Communication / Process Improvement / Requirements / ROI / Software development / Software requirements specification
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Software Requirements Specification Iteration and Prototyping
Developing great software requirements demands iteration
In our previous post of an example of the software development process, we showed a linear flow through the process, as depicted in several posts over a couple weeks. What we failed to show was any of the iteration cycles, as Deepak points out by asking a great question in the comments on that post. In this post, we will show a little more about how the process works by showing how iteration fits into the machinery of software development.
Process Improvement / Requirements / Software development / Software requirements specification / Test Automation / Testing / Use Cases / UX
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Software development process example
We’ve presented an example of the software development process across several posts over the last two weeks. In this post we tie them all together, showing the steps in process order.
Process Improvement / Software development
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The evolution of software product development
The Lost Garden has an outstanding post by Danc – Software Development’s Evolution towards Product Design.
Danc writes about how the software development process has evolved over the years. He characterizes this evolution in four distinct phases.
Design / Process Improvement / Software development / Test Automation / Testing
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Software Testing Series: Organizing a Test Suite with Tags Part Three
This is the third in a three-part post about using tags as a means to organize an automated unit test suite.
Part 3 of this post can be read as a standalone article. If it were, it would be titled Design elements of an automated unit test framework using tags. If you’re only reading this post and not parts 1 and 2, pretend that this is the title.
Prioritization / Requirements / Software development
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Prioritizing software requirements – am I hot or not?
Prioritizing software requirements
Jason at 37 signals recently posted about essential vs non-essential requirements – the software equivalent of Am I hot or not? He talks about the prioritization decisions their team went through as part of bringing Campfire to it’s launch. Campfire is an online collaboration application that just launched today. We will talk about how their prioritization