August 2002
In this issue:- August 2002 Cutter IT Journal -- Plotting a Testing Course in the IT Universe
- Plotting a Testing Course in the IT Universe: Opening Statement
- Testing As a Component of an Organizational IT Risk Management Strategy
- Consider the Consequences: Risk-Based Testing Strategies
- Making the Hard-to-Accept Aspects of QA Acceptable
- Testing in XP
- Standards Versus Agility: Working Toward Success in Software Testing
- Validating Agile Models
August 2002
In this month's CBR, we take on a classic issue: software estimation. It's a classic because it looks, on the surface, like something we ought to have figured out by now. There's a "way it's supposed to work" that looks plausible. That way -- the "objective estimation" version -- goes something like this:
July 2002
The Optimistic View
Testing has matured into a professional IT subdiscipline whose importance is being increasingly recognized by senior management at the same time that software quality and reliability is assuming greater importance in the general community.
The Pessimistic ViewIn this issue:- July 2002 Cutter IT Journal -- Confronting Complexity: Contemporary Software Testing
- Confronting Complexity: Contemporary Software Testing: Opening Statement
- Mirrors, Rockets, and Lives: Considering the Limits of Testing
- A "Satisficing" Approach to Software Testing in a Many-Flawed World
- Right Up Front: Strategies for Prioritizing Test Activities
- A People-Satisfying IDEA
- Seven Truths About Peer Reviews
July 2002
One message that comes through loud and clear from this month's CBR on Web services is that we (i.e., the IT industry) are not yet at all sure what we mean by these two words. Maybe that's not surprising. It is the latest buzz phrase, and judging from the data presented in the articles that follow, everybody is piling on this bandwagon (we may not know what it is, but most of us are pretty sure we're doing it). Buzz phrases are vague by nature, and when people start piling on, definitions usually get hazier.June 2002
I recently had lunch with the CEO of an information security firm and asked him about an impression I had from talking to firms about this area. "They don't seem worried enough," I suggested. He agreed and noted that part of the reason was the strategy being used to convince people of the need to invest in security. "We've been trying to scare them into action," he said, "and it isn't working."
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