Posts tagged with the "Software Quality" tag
Getting Quality to the Core of Outsourcing
April 4, 2012 | 4 Comments Last week, Capgemini released its second Financial Services World Quality Report. The report cited that while corporations across the globe continue to be constrained by budget issues, the complexity and volume of application software they handle continues to increase exponentially. As a result, Quality Assurance organizations are turning more and …Read More
Will the REAL Agile Please Stand Up?
March 30, 2012 | 2 Comments I hate Geometry. Actually, I do not hate the concept of Geometry – I’m rather partial to shapes and appreciate the need to calculate the areas, perimeters, volumes, et al that they represent. What I hate about the subject – or should I say “hated” (past tense) since I haven’t had …Read More
Google Hacking Tools Help Reveal Software Vulnerabilities
March 27, 2012 | Be the first to comment! InformationWeek published a very interesting report a couple of weeks ago, authored by Francis Brown of consulting firm Stach & Liu, which focused on hackers using search engines to seek out vulnerabilities in organizations’ IT environments. Penetration testing using a search engine was very popular among hackers in the early- to …Read More
Fixing Broken Windows
March 22, 2012 | Be the first to comment! I will never be confused or lumped in with the modern assemblage of DIY’ers (Do It Yourselfers for those even less handy than I). My father was a firm believer in the idea that if you learned how to fix something yourself, you were putting someone else out of a …Read More
A Gold Watch Salute for Technical Debt
March 13, 2012 | Be the first to comment! Talented IT teams regularly beat themselves up over technical debt and have built comprehensive plans to effectively manage and minimize its effects. Prodded by Larry Dignan in a recent post, just for today, take a break and instead look at the technical debt practices of enterprise software vendors. You would think …Read More
CRASHing Into Technical Debt
March 8, 2012 | Be the first to comment! Without going into specific finances, I make twice as much money as I did just 10 years ago. You would think this would be an indication that times, for me anyway, are good; yet I still seem to have the same question every month the week before I get paid, …Read More
Getting SaaS-y about Technical Debt
March 6, 2012 | Be the first to comment! I came across that old phrase, “Why buy the cow when you can get the milk for free?” the other day, in the context of marriage. Why should people marry when they can just live together? Well, you can imagine I came across a lot of opinions I won’t go …Read More