configuration management

Testing an application's robustness and tolerance for failures in its natural environment can be difficult or impossible. Developers and testers buy tool suites to simulate load, write programs that fill memory, and create large files on disk, all to determine the behavior of their application under test in a hostile and unpredictable environment. Herbert Thompson describes and demonstrates new, cutting edge methods for simulating stress that are more efficient and reliable than current industry practices. Using Windows Media Player and Winamp as examples, he demonstrates how new methods of fault injection can be used to simulate stress on Windows applications.

• Runtime fault injection as a testing and assessment tool
• Cutting edge stress-testing techniques
• An in-depth case study on runtime fault injection

This article discusses how updating current processes will make your test team better able to accomplish project goals. Change is good when it is implemented the right way.

This template describes recommended guidelines for implementing configuration management for software project artifacts and deliverables.

What is agility? Summarizing from last month's article agility is “The ability to both create and respond to change in order to profit in a turbulent business environment…. What is new about agile methods is not the practices they use, but their recognition of people as the primary drivers of project success, coupled with an intense focus on effectiveness and maneuverability.” [2]