Can Software Testing Management Ever Become Excessive?

Posted on Oct 10, 2012 in blogMetricsQA

Antoine de Saint-Exupery once stated that “Perfection is achieved, not when there is nothing more to add, but when there is nothing left to take away.” Truer words were never spoken. Although Antoine, who died in 1944, never had to work with software application testing tools in a world of perpetual evolution and changing consumer tastes. I wonder – if he were alive today, would he apply this same quote to software testing management? I don’t know. I do know that software testing accounts for the overwhelming majority of development costs (80% according to some sources). So perhaps in strictly … Read more

What came first – the chicken or the egg? A few thoughts about software testing Metrics

Posted on Sep 27, 2010 in blogMetricsQATesting

There are many topics which fuel debates and emotional discussions within the software testing community, but it seems that there’s one that really makes everyone excited – Metrics! How do you measure your testing efforts? What is the best way to evaluate effectiveness, and which elements should be quantified? How do we know if the testing we perform is of good quality? and so on. There seem to be more answers to these questions than the people who answer…. As a software test management tool provider, we were always trying to figure out the best approach. We read the related … Read more