Posts tagged with the "software performance testing" tag
Speed Kills
January 12, 2012 | Be the first to comment! Some among us may remember Earl Scheib who owned a chain of auto painting facilities; at least, that's what he called them. In actual fact, his shops were a national joke. In his TV commercials he would tell viewers, “I’ll paint any car for $99.95” and would promise one-day service. …Read More
Toast, Coffee & Software Quality
November 7, 2011 | Be the first to comment! Last week’s admissions of bugs in newly released software by Apple and Google were just the latest reminders that the battle between bringing software products to market quickly and optimizing software quality is coming to a head in a year that has seen far more than its share of software …Read More
Developers: They’re Only Human
June 7, 2011 | Be the first to comment! Human beings are an odd animal. We’re the only animal that experiences embarrassment over mistakes; some say we’re the only animal that realizes we make them. We also run a full gamut of emotions when we make mistakes – from frustration and self-deprecation to humor and acceptance. Mistakes are so prevalent …Read More
As IT Budgets Rebound, Companies Look to the Cloud for Quality
March 18, 2011 | Be the first to comment! Alyson Behr, a contributor to SD Times, wrote yesterday about companies beginning to increase their IT spending this year as the world begins to emerge from the global recession. This is all good news to those of us in the IT industry – it sure has been a long time …Read More
Titanic Dilemma: The Seen Versus the Unseen
March 17, 2011 | Be the first to comment! On the night of his ship’s maiden and lone voyage, the skipper of the Titanic saw the top of an iceberg, swerved to avoid it, and in doing so piloted his ship’s hull directly into the monstrous portion of the iceberg that lied unseen beneath the surface of the ocean, …Read More
Don’t Dawdle on Debt: Establishing a Technical Debt Action Plan
February 25, 2011 | Be the first to comment! Recently, Gartner Analyst Andy Kyte made quite a stir when he published a report that brought to the forefront just how expensive the cost of software maintenance is becoming for the IT industry. As reported by Patrick Thibodeau in Computerworld, Kyte cited what he called IT Debt as already standing …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