Posts tagged with the "quality assurance" tag
Is Your ‘Wastebook’ Overflowing?
January 4, 2012 | Be the first to comment! Every year, Senator Tom Coburn compiles the Wastebook – A Guide to Some of the Most Wasteful and Low Priority Government Spending of 2011. According to Senator Coburn in the report: “This report details 100 of the countless unnecessary, duplicative or just plain stupid projects spread throughout the federal government and paid …Read More
What the New York Giants Can Teach Us about Software Quality
December 7, 2011 | Be the first to comment! As we all know, Sundays are for football, and this past Sunday brought some choice matchups. Although I am a devout fan of the New England Patriots, one of my favorite games paired the undefeated Green Bay Packers, led by quarterback Aaron Rodgers, and Eli Manning's New York Giants. Tied …Read More
Sealed with a K.I.S.S.: Keeping IT Software Simple
November 21, 2011 | Be the first to comment! Kudos to Roger Sessions, the CTO of ObjectWatch. Recently, Sessions took a stand supporting “the intentional architectural design of simplicity into a software application,” which he dubbed “simplility.” But while I applaud Sessions for championing the case for simplicity in software architectural design, I’m not sure we need a new word …Read More
Software Quality Haunts Honda
September 7, 2011 | Be the first to comment! I’m strictly an “American Car” guy. Every car I’ve ever owned since my 1988 Ford Escort when I was in college has been American made. It’s not so much that I’m “gung-ho” pro-Union or some staunch advocate of only buying products made in the USA – although if two products were …Read More
Sunny Day, Sweepin’ the Hacks Away
August 22, 2011 | 5 Comments Today’s blog is brought to you by the letter “S.” “S” stands for security, something “S” organizations like Sony and Sega appeared to have too little of earlier this year. You could also say “S” represents the U.S. Dollar sign ($) that is associated with the FDIC and IRS, both of …Read More
Is Agile Enough to Ensure Quality?
May 3, 2011 | Be the first to comment! Whether it’s in sports, medicine, music or even a military operation, I’m a firm believer in the “best man for the job” concept. This is why Agile, or more specifically, Scrum development, sounds to me like a smart play for an organization. But even with the “best man” on the job, …Read More
Sometimes it is Rocket Science
February 23, 2011 | Be the first to comment! Very often when describing a concept, technique or any way of doing something, you hear people quip, “It’s not rocket science.” While normally this holds true for static analysis of business applications, the difference between the capabilities of the type of automated analysis and measurement offered by CAST versus manual …Read More