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 [...]
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SAP Broadens ALM Partner Reach
by Thomas Murphy | June 9, 2010 | 1 Comment
Finding Bugs, Its Only 1/3 of the Job
by Thomas Murphy | May 19, 2010 | Submit a Comment
As companies look at measurement of the software testing team often the focus is on the number of bugs found. This is of course a key job for testing but it is only getting part of the job done, the key part isn’t finding but getting defects removed and making the software better. This requires [...]
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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 [...]
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Crowd Testing Options Expand
by Thomas Murphy | April 5, 2010 | 2 Comments
uTest has owned the crowd-sourced testing market for the past few years building out an alternative to traditional outsourcing. The market has recently expanded with the Test Crowd, a UK-based organization that was founded by a former freelance tester. The primary differences in the new organization is it follows a traditional hourly rate model £30 [...]
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Test COE == ROI?
by Thomas Murphy | April 4, 2010 | 4 Comments
A common question currently is something along these lines: “If we shift to a Testing COE, what will be the ROI?” This is understandable given two primary related drivers: Testing is often seen as a bottleneck and a desire to drive overall AD efficiency. The challenge is that any ROI will be dependent on the [...]
Updating the MQ for Integrated Software Quality Suites
by Thomas Murphy | March 9, 2010 | 3 Comments
In the 8 months since this MQ launched, a market that on one hand would seem pretty stable (it certainly has been for years in its dominant provider) a good deal has changed. Borland has been acquired, new tools have come to market both in open source and traditional channels and the continued emergence of [...]
Key Topics in Testing
by Thomas Murphy | February 17, 2010 | Submit a Comment
Every year we try to organize our thoughts around topics of research hopefully having some organization to what gets published. I can’t say that I am the most organized here but as I look at the inquiries that come in and changes we expect and the reports like the Integrated Quality Suites MQ that will [...]
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Getting Load Testing Right
by Thomas Murphy | February 11, 2010 | 4 Comments
Load and stress testing is nothing new. There are many vendors providing tools, service providers providing “skilled” workers all in what one could think of as a mature market. Yet, our ability to effectively carry out load and stress testing on applications (especially web applications) seems to be quite limited if you look at the [...]
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Tester Effectiveness Isn’t About Bugs Found
by Thomas Murphy | January 22, 2010 | 3 Comments
Finding defects is only 1/2 the job for a tester and it isn’t the most important. The most important job is getting bugs fixed. The Tester isn’t directly responsible for the fix but an effective tester will 1) find test cases that make the defect so readily apparent the developer can’t say it is not [...]
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Ready for Peak Loads
by Thomas Murphy | December 21, 2009 | Submit a Comment
A growing number of vendors are offering “cloud oriented” load testing solutions to help users deal with load spikes such as holidays and other date driven events such as registration and taxes. The value to the user is only paying for the tools when you need them and an ability to drive a much larger [...]
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