Communicating the Value of Testing Throughout the Organization

Webinar: Communicating the Value of Testing Throughout the Organization

Test managers constantly lament that few outside their group understand or care much about the value they provide and consistently deliver. Unfortunately, they are often correct. The lack of visibility and understanding of the test team's contribution can lead to restricted budgets, fewer resources, tighter timelines, and ultimately, lower group productivity. Join Theresa Lanowitz and Dan Koloski as they highlights ways to move from simply being a tester of software to an advocate for your organization's customers. Learn how to effectively and concisely communicate with key stakeholders in your organization to ensure that they understand the value and role of the testing group. With effective and concise communication, the testing group will be perceived as more strategically important and integral to the success of every project.

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Test 2008 - Software Testing Conference

Test 2008 is the first conference being organized by PureConferences in India. Our conference will provide a platform for international and national test professionals to interact and participate. Speakers from around 10 countries, such as USA, UK, France, Sweden, Canada, Italy, Netherlands, including India will deliver keynotes, tutorials, and papers during the conference. We intend to involve academia and institutions of learning with our conference. We also intend to make Test2008 a ‘green’ conference as far as possible. Additionally, we will institute two test scholarships for educating promising students unable to finance their studies.

Agility in Testing is the theme of Test2008--Test Excellence through Speed and Technology. It's being held at Delhi in India during 13-16 October 2008

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Tester Center from MSDN

The Microsoft Tester Center showcases the test discipline as an integral part of the application life cycle, describes test roles and responsibilities, and promotes the test investments required to deliver high-quality software.

Some cool stuff here are the videos & articles

At the Tester Center, our goal is to provide a community where software testers can share knowledge and learn from each other about testing, our day-to-day job functions, processes, the tools we use, and the various roles we play. As you look around the site, you’ll see videos, articles, blogs, and other information. With your participation this site could be the start of many a conversation in our Software Testing Discussion Forum, where you can join other test professionals to exchange experiences and knowledge. Additionally, questions you ask at the Software Testing Discussion Forum will help guide the type of content we look to create over time. I hope you participate in this community and share your unique insights into the profession of software testing.

Surviving a Corporate Merger - QA Processes in Times of Change

We live in an era of constant change; new companies, processes, environments, reorganizations, restructuring, mergers, acquisitions, buyouts, outsourcing etc. The only true certainty is that our environment will continue to change. In the face of these dynamics, ensuring that product quality does not get lost is a challenge.Come learn how one QA organization successful navigated the sea of changes while still maintaining their quality focus. Stuart Charter will suggest QA techniques to assist you in coping with this change when it affects your organization.

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Web Seminar: Surviving a Corporate Merger - QA Processes in Times of Change

WEDNESDAY, October 17, 2007 2:00 p.m. Eastern | 11:00 a.m. Pacific


MODERATOR
Edward J. Correia, Editor, Software Test & Performance Magazine

SPEAKERS
Dan Koloski, CTO and Director of Strategy, Empirix Inc.
Stuart H. Charter, Director of Quality Assurance MortgageIT Inc. a subsidiary of Deutsche Bank

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Misleading Metrics

Come across this interesting article over the Gantthead

The software development industry has a poor track record for developing and employing effective software metrics. This is because most of the metrics selected are tangential to the true goal of software development--delivering business value--and instead focus on software attributes and accounting measures.

Metrics such as lines-of-code per developer week, function points created, hours worked or budget consumed appear to be important measures, but they have dangerous and counterproductive implications. The use of these metrics reward the wrong behavior; the phrase "you get what you measure" highlights the problem. By tracking lines of code written, visible and unconscious incentives to generate lots of code are established. On the surface, this may seem attractive. As a manger of a project, it is gratifying to see lots of code being written. But what is really required is functionality completed, business value generated and customers satisfied.

The more code generated, the harder a system is to maintain and extend. With incentives like lines-of-code written, how do value-adding activities like refactoring simplifications appear? Reducing 20,000 lines of code to 15,000 is a good thing, but from the lines-of-code perspective, it looks like the project is going backward.

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