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Manage Good Solutions Visualize Your Problems to Manage Good Solutions

Visualizing your workflow is a key component of agile methods. But if we want to solve problems, we have to do a bit more than just visualize them with sticky notes. We have to perform some actual problem management. And to manage problems, a good start would be to measure them.

Jurgen Appelo's picture Jurgen Appelo
Take a Second Look at Software Testing Metrics

The question of how to measure the effectiveness of testing procedures fuels heated controversies. In reality, however, testing metrics are subjective. It is recommended, therefore, that we adopt a different approach and move to measuring data and processes instead of measuring people.

Arik Aharoni
Efficiency and Effectiveness Measures To Help Guide the Business of Software Testing

The measurements described in this paper answer the question of whether Software Testing is "doing the right thing" (effectiveness). Once there is assurance and quantification of correct testing, metrics should be developed that determine whether or not Software Testing "does the thing right" (efficiency).

John Huber
Measurement in the CMM

A recent question in the Quality Engineering-Metrics message board (on StickyMinds.com) asked about measurement at the different levels in the Software Capability Maturity Model. This article begins a series that will highlight the measurement requirements at each of the CMM Levels, starting with Level 2. Measurement in the CMM is often misunderstood when people focus only on the "Measurements and Analysis" sections of the model. This article offers an in-depth explanation of the CMM.

Ed Weller's picture Ed Weller

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