Design reviews would benefit from the support of formal rules. By the use of relevant rules, it should be possible to ensure prior to a review that all the relevant information for a review is present in the design specifications, and that all the minimum review criteria are met. This will ensure management time is not wasted and aid better decision-making. This paper recommends that the Specification Quality Control (SQC) method be used to do this additional quality control.Read More

I would like to suggest some fundamental heuristics that characterize the essential spirit of systems engineering. Heuristics that can be used to teach essential engineering tactics.Read More

Managers don’t ask tough enough questions about written material. I know because I have spent decades watching them fail to ask the questions which would have exposed the proposals as dangerous or not well thought out.Read More

We seem to spend a lot of our time defining terms, arguing over terms, standardizing terms, and misunderstanding terms. In connection with my development of a planning language, and its basic textbook I had to make a decision regarding my glossary. One of the formal design requirements I had set for myself was that the planning language, and its textbooks were easy to translate into other international languages.Read More

I believe that most requirements specifications in practice are very poor in clarity, and in content. I believe that in addition to tackling the clarity problem by a variety of rich specification devices, we need to make a requirement specification ‘work harder’ to satisfy a large number of needs by adding ‘background’ to the requirement.Read More

Testers have the right to unambiguous and clear requirements, qualities must be quantified.Read More

Agile Software Methods are a great relief and a big step in the right direction compared to traditional development methods. Agile Software Methods biggest weakness is in it’s complete lack of systematic control towards satisfying Product Quality and Stakeholder Value Requirements.Read More

Scales of measure are fundamental to Planguage They are central to the definition of all scalar attributes, that is, to all the performance and resource attributes.Read More

Many multinational companies practice Evolutionary Project Management. Several have adopted the methods, or parts of them, as company policy for how to develop and deliver products, as well as how to run the whole organization from the top.Read More

Surprisingly, many project cultures have little formal knowledge of Evo, even though it has been in use since the 1960s. The first documented large-scale industrial use of Evo was from 1970 to 1980 and on, within IBM Federal Systems Division (IBM FSD,later owned by Loral and Lockheed Martin).Read More

Ethical and ecological awareness continues to grow and organizations in the software arena must expect their impact on communities and the environment to be scrutinized by various interests including their customers. However our position is more defensible than that of many other industries. Gareth Heaton’s high-level commentary will help software-related organizations to communicate on the main issues and to prepare to argue their case if challengedRead More

Corporations are beginning to realize that data quality is a critical business issues and poor data quality can have serious financial implications. The annual data growth rate for small (less than 100 employees) and medium (100 to 1,000 employees) businesses is estimated to be 15 percent—higher than the growth rate for enterprises. The rate of annual data growth for large enterprises is more than 25%.Read More

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Good quality test data is the key to the success of new and existing applications.The ability to create test data quickly for a range of test cases will save organizations time and money.Datamaker is an easy to use tool that lets you subset, anonymize and create rich test data for development and testing.Read More

Datamaker is an extremely powerful toolset that can be used throughout the entire development lifecycle. Building, editing,checking, and testing data are activities familiar to all IT professionals.Read More

Often testing is performed on copies of production data or poorly scrambled copies of live data. GT-Datamaker quickly lets you build a picture of how your data is related then model existing data or build new sets of test data. When the data is published you can substitute defined standard variables such as financial year; payment dates; location code etc. The test sets will then match your current testing requirements.Read More

Grid Tools is a specialist data management and data creation company with over 15 years experience in the industry writing and developing solutions for large global companies in both the private and public sectors.Read More

Do you find errors in production because you didn’t have the right data when you tested; adding days, weeks or months to your project? Can you produce test data of the scale and quality required to rigorously test your applications?Read More

Do you struggle with full-sized copies of your Oracle E-Business database when testing new releases, conducting reporting, training or testing? Are you finding the process expensive, prone to error and inefficient?Read More

Obtaining ROI with an Application Lifecycle Management (ALM) Tool document discusses how an Application Lifecycle Management (ALM) tool can quick obtain a return on investment(ROI) for companies that develop and maintain software.Read More

Best Practices for Regression Test Case Management document discusses regression test cases, when to automate them, and how to analyze the results of your automation.Read More

Pragmatic Agile Development This document describes the Pragmatic Agile Development framework, a Scrum based development process. Read More!

Best Practice Templates for Managing the Software Lifecycle explains about some templates you will find useful during for software projects. We created different sets of templates for Agile Development vs. Waterfall, as those methodologies require different strategies. Read More!

Newsletters for Managing the Software Lifecycle explains how to start improving your project efficiency and success by receiving our monthly newsletters. Read More!

How to ensure personal data is protected when producing test data “Tips, tricks and methods to anonymise and create test data". With the recent raft of legislation about data privacy and various reports of data theft it has become essential for organizations to look again at their use of personal data for testing Download Now!

Meeting Strategic Challenges through Effective Software testing From Original Software This White Paper talks about the various challenges faced by the top management in the organisation in delivering quality and strategic intiatives that in turn will provide competitive advantage to the business Download Now!

Today there is a pressure on IT departments of the organisations to deliver quality software. Last 20 years various organisations developed software applications, various testing methodologies, Automation . Find out more details on how to implement software automation and find success

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Whether you’re testing new applications or developing existing ones, quality test data is crucial. Datamaker not only creates data from scratch, it can also subset and anonymise your existing data, quickly and effectively — saving your organisation time and money. Supported by all major database vendors, datamaker is simply the most powerful test data generator in the world. WATCH DEMO

Read interesting white papers from Roque consulting - Managing third party testing As Test Managers we need to be in control of all test activities. If the client has the right to witness our testing, we need to be in control of that as well if we are to avoid deadlock, or worse still, complete mayhem, with the client imposing unscheduled, unscripted and unrealistic extra tests. Read More>>

Agilitek Corporation is a management consulting firm that specializes in information technology (IT) project management, business analysis, and software testing. Agilitek consultants work with senior managers and executives to address issues in methodology, strategy, and technology. Based on thier vast practical experience and rigorous research background, they also publish articles, develop products, and speak professionally in thier areas of expertise. Read More>>