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Three Components of Effective Defect-management Systems

Article by Krishen Kota | Comments (1)
 From a high-level view, defect management systems are made up of a combination of some defect management tools or tool and a defect management process. These two primary components work together to... Read More

Management Myth #1: The Myth of 100% Utilization

Article by Johanna Rothman | Comments (17)
 A manager took me aside at a recent engagement. “You know, Johanna, there’s something I just don’t understand about this agile thing. It sure doesn’t look like everyone is being used at 100 percent... Read More

Management Myth #2: Only ‘The Expert’ Can Perform This Work

Article by Johanna Rothman
 Many managers feel as if they have limited options when a project is waiting for The Expert. They can make the project wait, they can ask The Expert to multitask, or they can plug another expert into... Read More

CM: The Next Generation—Tailoring CM and ALM Tools

Blog Post by Jonathan Vanian
 Today we published a great piece by Joe Farah over at CM Crossroads. Joe Farah has been working in software field since the late 1960s, and he’s personally witnessed the ever-evolving world of... Read More

Management Myth #1: The Myth of 100% Utilization

Article by Johanna Rothman | Comments (17)
 A manager took me aside at a recent engagement. “You know, Johanna, there’s something I just don’t understand about this agile thing. It sure doesn’t look like everyone is being used at 100 percent... Read More

Seven Ways to Make Testing Irrelevant on Your Team

Article by Marlena Compton | Comments (12)
 Wouldn't it be great if everyone on your team loved testing and working with testers? When developers and testers have a respectful relationship, it's easier for developers to see the value and take... Read More

Three Components of Effective Defect-management Systems

Article by Krishen Kota | Comments (1)
 From a high-level view, defect management systems are made up of a combination of some defect management tools or tool and a defect management process. These two primary components work together to... Read More

The Clean Coder (& Tester!)

Blog Post by Lisa Crispin | Comments (1)
 I just finished reading Bob Martin's The Clean Coder. I understand why he used that title, but I would have preferred something like The Software Professional or How to Really Enjoy Your Software... Read More

Experimenting

Blog Post by Lisa Crispin | Comments (4)
 If you asked anyone in my team what agile practice is most responsible for our success over the past eight years, I bet they'd answer "retrospectives". At the start of every two-week sprint, we spend... Read More

Paradigm Shift in Test Automation- The Solution to the Maintenance Problem

While fundamental innovations have been made in the software development industry, maintenance problems have stymied the great early promise of test automation - until now. With its unique Business... Read More - Get this content

How to Deploy Enterprise Mobile Test Automation

In terms of Application Lifecycle Management (ALM), the mobile environment represents a paradigm shift from the world of desktop and web applications. This is because mobile is extremely fragmented,... Read More - Get this content

5 Tips for Improving Agile Testing Teams

You use agile development because it’s a faster, more efficient and economical method of delivering high-quality software. But there are unique challenges to effective agile testing. It requires a... Read More - Get this content

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SAP Opens Palo Alto "Agile" Complex

German enterprise software giant SAP is planning on infiltrating and dominating the cloud market, and it's doing it the agile way according to IDG News Service. SAP unveiled this week a brand new 42,... Read More

Oracle Takes Google to Court Over Java

The trial of the year (at least in our world of software) is beginning this week in San Francisco as Oracle will present to a federal jury its claims that Google snatched it’s Java code to create the... Read More

White House Launches SummerQAmp for Needy Youth

It’s about time we highlight some good news going on in the world of software. Last month, as part of the White House’s Summer Jobs+ initiative—created to spur businesses and organizations to provide... Read More

Press Release: Avidian Technologies Takes Cross-Organizational, Outlook-Based CRM to the Cloud With the Release of Prophet Ultimate OnDemand Edition

REDMOND, WA-- Avidian Technologies Avidian Technologies has announced the addition of Prophet Ultimate OnDemand Edition to the company's line of industry-leading Microsoft Outlook-based... Read More
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