Software testing is a field that is so broad reaching that you can write hundreds of books about – and people have. There are different techniques and different tools. New testing technologies are being created all the time. There are a host of different goals – testing requirements, testing designs, […]
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You can fool some of the SQL some of the time…
Thanks to the folks who pointed out to me that the blog was down for almost 12 hours today. The mysql database for our blog went down and it took a little while to get it operational again. Now to get back to the actual business of posting content…
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More on choosing the right software process
B. Scott Burkett writes a post, Choosing the right methodology, that is worth a read. He proposes that you pick your process (incremental, RUP, agile, waterfall) depending on the circumstances of each project. This builds nicely on the discussion we started in our Foundation series post, Software process (waterfall process […]
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Little black book
I realized a few moments ago that I have been remiss in updating my little black book blogroll with some of the really good blogs that I read. I thought I’d take a moment to shout out to them and thank them for some really great content that has helped […]
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Death by a thousand cuts: Usability problems add up
In Those “Minor” Usability Annoyances, Daniel Read at developer.* writes in on a topic that resonates with me. Daniel describes working on a critical application with multi-year, continuous development and a couple hundred internal users. I’m currently helping a client incorporate automated unit testing for a similar enterprise application, and […]
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Sorry about the mess
For folks who were paying attention recently, I added some technorati tagging capabilities to the site, and started adding tags to the posts. Guess I got a little overzealous (or the plugin was a little flaky), and I brought the site down. We appear to be back up now, and […]
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Top five usability blunders (and fixes)
Five easy steps to alienating your users with bad usability Fail to simplify a comprehensive interface so that new users can quickly climb past the suck threshold. Build an inconsistent UI layout or interaction design that varies throughout the application, creating a sense of dissonance for the users. Interrupt the […]
Process Improvement / Requirements / ROI / Software development
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The Best Way to Improve ROI is With Good Requirements
Statistics that support the critical need for requirements management improvements…
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