In the past few weeks, I was in four or five interesting meetings in which I had conversations with a wide range of software products – from embedded systems to code generators. The participants were founders of nascent as well as fairly established startups. As I discussed their products with them, I felt that the […]
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As a quality and testing professional, one should look at all aspects of Software Quality. This is part of the risk strategy, although in security world, as industry security expert Adam Shostack puts it, risk is different from a security threat. A threat can happen, and it is important to identify, and try to prevent
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Zero-click search results are all too convenient, summarizing the points for the topic we are searching for in the search engines. Convenience comes with a cost, which is the accuracy and validity of information provided being not up to the mark, to put it mildly. In this article, let’s talk about the quality of zero-click
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We often keep streamlining our testing processes based on requirements, feedback, and as part of continuous improvement. There are many challenges as well as opportunities to streamline, and in this article, we will look into the details of testing process streamlining. By the way, checkout my YouTube channel on Software Quality and Testing and subscribe
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A common method of measuring software quality is by using software defect density, which is dividing the no. of defects encountered by lines of code for that module/product, or with function points. While this can be useful as a ballpark for prioritizing where to focus on in fixing defects, the method has its flaws. While
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Alignment of quality and test professionals with the rest of the team, especially with the project and program management is important. Sometimes there will be conflicts on how the management perceives the test and quality analysis results. Quality and test professionals should strive in avoiding test results conflicts. In this article, let’s see how it
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With the urgency to deliver and to work towards superior quality, which are two conflicting goals, the job of a quality and testing professionals is getting very challenging. Recently I wrote an article about how to balance this, and in this article, let’s talk about some strategies for test prioritization, which in itself a challenge
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Due to time pressure and the urgency to deliver, there are incidents of skipping testing activities occurring. In this article, we will take a deep look into such practices and how it affects the end-users and the customers ultimately. The arguments that are placed for skipping testing activities are multi-fold: … and so on. Skipping
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Pressure to deliver as soon as possible and upholding efforts for superior quality are two conflicting goals because by nature, the more time we spend on thorough testing, the more issues we find. There is always the challenge of balancing thorough testing and fast feedback. In this article, let’s look at some strategies to accomplish
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We are all at wit’s end when we are into testing last minute features that are thrust upon on us. As a team, we are annoyed, frustrated, and don’t know what to do next as these new features demand exhaustive quality analysis and testing but we don’t have time. So what do we do? Push
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