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Software Test Metrics: Empirical Approach towards Quality - An article by QA InfoTech

80% of average project costs indulge to fix challenges, bugs and other issues during the development of a project. No other business can afford this much failure in terms of budget and time. There can be many reasons for such failures; the focus of our discussion here is not to discuss the roots of such failures but how to improve effectiveness in terms of time and money. In agile methodology, transparency is a big challenge as there is no documentation. It's very important to pick effective metrics to use as you can't manage what you can't measure.

In Software quality testing, there is an important role of ‘Metrics’ popularly known as Software Metrics;”software metric is a measure of some property of a piece of software or its specifications “[Source:http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Software_metric]. Software metrics can be an answer to many questions, like planning budget, cost estimation, assuring quality of a product, software debugging, software performance optimization, and resource management.

For original Article Source: http://www.articlesbd.com/articles/143133/1/Software-Test-Metrics-Empirical-Approach-towards-Quality/Page1.html

About the Author:

Knowledge Sharing Team at QA InfoTech is responsible for research on new tools & technologies for effective Software quality testing servicesacross all industry verticals. QA InfoTech (an ISO 9001:2008 & CMMI III certified) is one of the leading Software QA Testing Companies with five testing “Centers of Excellence” in the United States and India.  It offers end to end automated testing services.

For more visit us at: http://www.qainfotech.com/service_offerings.html

No One Left Behind : Make Time for Accessibility Testing

You might be surprised to know that currently 650 million people—or 10 percent of the world’s population — live with some form of disability . With the growing use of software in all walks of life, this is a major segment of the population that cannot be left behind.

Disabilities and associated accessibility problems largely fall under four categories:

Visual Impairments: partial or complete loss of vision. Low or no vision affects the user’s ability to discern or see the screen. Core assistive tools and technologies for the visually impaired include screen readers, braille terminals, and screen magnification tools

For Original Article source : http://www.stickyminds.com/sitewide.asp?Function=edetail&ObjectType=COL&ObjectId=17285&tth=DYN&tt=siteemail&iDyn=2

About the Author
As director of engagement, Rajini Padmanaban leads the engagement and relationship management for some of QA InfoTech's largest and most strategic accounts. She has more than ten years of professional experience, primarily in the software quality assurance space. Rajini actively advocates software quality assurance through evangelistic activities including blogging on test trends, technologies, and best practices, providing insights on software testing to analyst firms such as Gartner and IDC. Her official blogs are available at: http://www.qainfotech.com/blog/. She lives in Seattle, WA and can be reached at rajini.padmanaban@qainfotech.net.

Ways to design tests in an Agile model

Do you know the ways in which Test can be designed in an Agile model


Agile lifecycle and methodology of developing software are terms that have gained a lot of popularity in the last 5 years or so. Everyone has come to accept the iterative development cycle, short release cycles, focus on collaboration between teams with lower emphasis on documentation across disciplines. One of the associated areas in Software Testing is how much emphasis should be given to formal test designing and should it be done any differently in Agile than in traditional waterfall development models.


For original Article source : http://www.qainfotech.com/blog/2012/05/designing-tests-in-the-agile-world/