Category Archives: software engineering

Pathways to Requirements Based Testing

By Andreas Birk | Published: 06/12/2010
Andreas Birk published the article “Pfade zum Requirements-basierten Testen” in issue 17 of the German SQ Magazin. He elaborated several paths how to achieve requirements-based testing. In summary: Test manager can benefit substantially from an established requirements process. Therefore it’s in their best interest to take action and drive the requirements [...]
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Who Owns the Requirements

By Gerald Heller | Published: 18/11/2010
When it comes to the question of who owns the requirements the answer is sometimes surprising. Depending on the titles used in an organization we may hear requirements analyst, business analyst or product manager. Others might name development manager, solution manager or system analyst. While all these people have to say a lot about requirements the [...]
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Agile Metrics Grid

By Andreas Birk | Published: 12/08/2010
Recently, Gerald Heller an I discussed about metrics used in agile development, agile testing metrics in particular. We found quite a number of relevant metrics and sought a way to structure them. Partly inspired by Brian Marick’s testing quadrants (see Lisa Crispin’s presentation), we ended up with a matrix spanned by two dichotomous axes. The first [...]
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Goal/Question/Metric (GQM)

By Andreas Birk | Published: 11/08/2010
Goal/Question/Metric (GQM) is an established and elaborated method for measurement in software engineering. I have been using it, and doing evaluation research and method development on it since the 1990-ies. It can be useful in particular for the following purposes: Systematically define measurement and reporting in software projects Consolidate existing “ad hoc” measurement Gain information needed for [...]
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Testing History

By Gerald Heller | Published: 23/06/2010
Recently I came across the website www.testingreferences.com whose author Joris Meerts did a great job in collecting a history of testing. In addition, he  provides a pretty extensive listing on Testing web sites Testing blogs Testing videos (educational) Testing literature I am sure you will love this site. As the list is pretty long I will tell you my personal [...]
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