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Sometimes it seems we software managers are so busy responding to crises that we don't have time to go back and figure out how we got in the mess to begin with.

As managers, we're stewards of our company's assets. Each team's capacity to learn-and rate of learning-should be treated as something to be developed, just like coding skills and other intangible corporate assets.

"Outsourcing" testing-or use of external test labs to perform some or all of a testing effort-is becoming common within the software industry. Using a test lab has advantages as well as disadvantages.

Automated tests using self-verifying data (SVD) can help determine if your query-type tests have the right information or if they are showing you the expected views.

Test automation is an unavoidable entity for testing Web-based applications where reduced time-to-market is the name of the game.

Building an environment to successfully test wireless intelligent network peripherals presents an array of complex problems to resolve.

Studies have shown that over fifty percent of software defects are attributed to poorly defined requirements.