Ok, ok, it’s not literally called boutique tester. But listen to this: You: someone who can make guesses about how a website or application is going to fail, prove that […]
Read MoreCAST 2011 – August 8, 2011, Seattle Washington
If you’ve been waiting with breathless anticipation for announcements on CAST 2011, wait no more: It’s August 8-10 at the Lynwood Convention Center in Seattle, Washington. Note: I am not […]
Read MoreQuality is a slogan
Some long-time readers may recall that I am a member of the American Society for Quality, one of the larger, older and more influential non-profits in the Quality Space. ASQ […]
Read MoreOn Skill
I just got back from the software test and performance conference in beautiful Las Vegas, Nevada – conference write-up here. Just after I got back from the conference, we started […]
Read MoreSoftware Test Estimation – VII
So we’ve had a bit of an adventure; I’ve covered three different estimation models, each with a basis that isactually sound. And there’s a problem. The problem is simple: We […]
Read MoreInterlude – About Software Engineering
(More Test Estimation to come, but first: An Interlude) By now many of us know the standard ‘barbs’ – for example, that when Winston Royce designed the waterfall model, he […]
Read MoreTest Estimation – VI
So far, we have two ways to predict project outcome: First by comparing the test effort to other projects, and suggesting it is “between the six of project X and […]
Read MoreTest Estimation – V
So one way to estimate the testing phase (if you have such a thing), or at least testing activities, is to compare the test effort to the development effort or […]
Read MoreTest Estimation – IV
So far, I’ve pointed out various issues in test estimation, pointing out the fallacies involved in simple ‘naive’ test estimation. I also pointed out that is possible to do some […]
Read MoreTest Estimation – III
So previously I posted that factors outside our own control make accurately estimating the total test schedule impossible. In addition, I posted that even estimatingf simple, known, static things by […]
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