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Many software testing and quality assurance (QA) organizations are stuck in the cycle of continuously testing applications and don't have a clear process in place or a way to... More...

Feb 16, 2007
quality assurance analysts and testers can ensure application quality. This tip suggests steps for keeping QA and testing focused on quality... More...
Nov 17, 2009
strategy can help reduce application costs, improve application quality and ensure everyone is involved in the creation process. This article explains the basics to help you get started with iterations, Extreme... More...
Apr 9, 2007
Application security is now a primary concern for many software developers. This article illustrates why security has taken precedence. Circumstances as... More...
Apr 14, 2006
This article has great advice on getting QA up to speed with application security. There is a wealth information on picking the right security tools. Involving QA in security is important and this is a good place to... More...
Jul 28, 2006
What is the difference between software quality assurance and software test?

Often these terms are used interchangeably, perhaps because in many organizations the same people perform both... More...

Jan 29, 2010
in this blog. What are organizations using to streamline application production, ensure high quality and see ROI in the development space... More...
Mar 8, 2010
of complex applications to identify issues with technical quality, and it delivers metrics based on industry standards from organizations such as the International Standards Organizations (ISO) and the... More...
Mar 4, 2008
updates to its testing and automation software, HP Quality Center, that will make management and provisioning easier in heterogeneous data centers.

HP Quality Center is used by quality control (QC) to... More...

Dec 15, 2008
system provides advanced features to filter and analyze application quality metrics, which allows managers to focus on a specific application's technical quality. Furthermore, a new export feature helps users perform... More...
Jul 25, 2008
functionality is unchanging. This would require a software quality analyst to create tests that gauge the system's logical business process and weigh it against what the system was originally intended to do.

On... More...

Nov 5, 2008
some vendors are targeted at a single language within the application, not so much the entire Web stack. More about Web application security tools: Open source application security testing tools

What to look for in a... More...
Nov 18, 2008
knew that in order to continue growing as well as improve the quality of its software, it needed to change its development processes and bring in some tools.

"If we continued growing, there was no way to keep that pace... More...

Feb 27, 2007
in which the authors of code, peer reviewers, and perhaps quality assurance (QA) testers get together to review code. Finding and correcting errors at this stage is relatively inexpensive and tends to reduce... More...
Dec 19, 2005

A continuous quality process ensures quality tasks are not only deployed across every stage of the software development life cycle (SDLC), but also ingrained into... More...

Nov 17, 2008
continued from CMMI: Good process doesn't always lead to good quality)

How has the approach to quality evolved over the years?

Think of the history of software and application development in a series of waves, in... More...
Jun 9, 2008
its customers with "the industry's most comprehensive application quality, performance and security assessment solutions."

Caleb Sima, CTO and co-founder of SPI Dynamics, agreed that the investment by HP will enhance the... More...

Jun 19, 2007
Code coverage is a term that is used to describe how much application code is exercised when an application is running. Test coverage is often used to describe test cases that are written against the requirements... More...
Oct 12, 2010
moves, Rally Software Development enhanced its Rally Quality Manager module to provide better visibility of test-related development artifacts. The company's goal is to provide a single source of... More...
Jun 20, 2008
director of the recently formed Consortium for IT Software Quality (CISQ). It has taken the software industry "a long time to do what other areas of engineering do—measure." CISQ is holding its kick-off meeting in... More...
Oct 13, 2009
related metrics on many projects.

In the end, quality belongs to everyone, but I appreciate a tester taking a leadership role if no performance metrics have been established or if established... More...

Aug 18, 2009

Creating high-quality software is an interesting mix of art and science. At least 20 years ago innovative leaders like Brad Cox and Tom Love (inventors of Objective C... More...

Jun 27, 2007
s LQM products are focused on a holistic and open approach to application quality, leveraging existing processes, in any environment, with integration to other application lifecycle management (ALM) products -- both in-house... More...
Feb 15, 2007
Software Testing White papers
Software testing: why it needs a new professionalism by ComputerWeekly.com
We believe that Testing is at a key juncture in its development as a Profession. The demonstrable consequences of this approach are now very clear  - hidden...
Automated testing ROI: fact or fiction? A customer's perspective: What real QA organizations have found by Hewlett-Packard Company
the fundamentals of automated software testing, explains how such an endeavor is actually an investment for a company, and details how a company can get a return on their investment.

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Test Environment Access Constraints: The Impact on Testing and Quality by Parasoft Corporation
Parasoft survey, development and testing teams seem to lack the resources required to complete their expected level of testing when it comes to their applications...
MODERNIZE YOUR MANUAL TESTING WITH HP SPRINTER by Hewlett-Packard Company
Manual testing still accounts for about 75% of all functional testing. However, innovation hasn’t come into play yet and manual testers find...

Uplift Quality with Requirements Driven Testing

by Micro Focus
learn why requirements driven testing (RDT) is so important, what potential areas of the software development life cycle are addressed by RDT, the benefits, and the...