SAP had its first significant life-cycle partnership a couple years ago with HP providing a more robust set of tools for managing testing activities to beef up their own capabilities. Now with that relationship well established they are extending to support additional companies. Coming next quarter will be tools that integrate between SAP’s Solution Manager [...]
Archives for June, 2010
SAP Broadens ALM Partner Reach
by Thomas Murphy | June 9, 2010 | 1 Comment
Should I Embed Testers in the Dev Team?
by Thomas Murphy | June 8, 2010 | 2 Comments
At IBM’s Innovate conference a four person panel (Scott Ambler, Kim Warner, Reed Figgins, Brian Massey) addressed several issues with Agile and Testing. The starting question was the title line here. Agile generally thinks about small teams 5-15 people who work in close proximity (possibly the same room) with each other. Teams with the greatest [...]
Metrics, The Trap We All Fall Into
by Thomas Murphy | June 8, 2010 | Submit a Comment
A lot of the calls I take focus on metrics for the QA team. How many testers per developer, how many hours of testing, how many defects, etc. Unfortunately many of these metrics don’t end up yielding useful information often because they are too simple and they leave to many variables open. We like metrics [...]
