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 [...]
Entries Categorized as 'Agile'
Metrics, The Trap We All Fall Into
by Thomas Murphy | June 8, 2010 | Submit a Comment
Rally Expands Offering With Acquisition of AgileZen
by Thomas Murphy | April 14, 2010 | 4 Comments
Over the past few years we have seen a solid growth in the number of companies using Agile development methods. From the ALM viewpoint Agile is one of the drivers for companies to acquire new tools. Rally Software has played well in this market with their SaaS delivered solutions supporting Scrum. Generally this market has [...]
Developers play a roll in quality but must be compensated for it
by Thomas Murphy | April 9, 2010 | 5 Comments
As organizations begin to absorb Agile development methods they will see that there are lots of great tasks for developers to perform generally all which result in better quality code sooner in the life-cycle. Practices such as mandatory unit tests or test driven development (TDD), code reviews, static analysis, etc. are all great but they [...]
Category: Agile Testing Tags: Unit Testing
The “Agile” Methodology
by Thomas Murphy | January 11, 2010 | 1 Comment
Currently I see methodology discussions often start with “we are using the agile method.” This generally rubs me a bit the wrong way because I don’t think of Agile as a method or process but as a philosophy and a set of practices. It is also not 1 thing but a category. Or if we [...]
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Is the promise of ALM gone?
by Thomas Murphy | January 7, 2010 | 2 Comments
Seven years the development tools market looked to be on path to consolidation around a few vendors and a shift from lots of task tools to integrated suites. Application Life-cycle Management would bring together teams and deliver new levels of governance and productivity. Now as we begin the new decade I wonder if this a [...]
Welcome
by Thomas Murphy | September 16, 2008 | 3 Comments
I will use this space to point to interesting new developments and research in the software quality assurance and testing area as well as covering general AD and Agile topics. We have a lot of great new research underway including a MarketScope for ALM. ALM has been a hot topic for several years now and [...]
Category: Agile ALM Metrics Testing Tags: ALM, MarketScope, Testing
