Daily bread 03/04/2018

• TO VERB VS FOR VERB-ING : Sentence Correction (SC)

  • ‘TO VERB’ VS ‘FOR VERB-ING’

• When to take the risk in software testing: A guide - Developer Tech

  • When to take the risk in software testing: A guide
  • In today’s faster, smarter, cheaper centric world, with the technologies, tools and experience that software companies have at their disposal, you might assume that businesses would be able to create and release software that is (almost) defect free.
  • Many organizations knowingly release products with defects and others time box testing and release with areas of functionality unproven.
  • need to get better at providing the decision makers with the correct information to allow them to take the call on “when to take the risk” of releasing or deploying a product.
  • Testing as a part of the risk mitigation business
  • In software development, the pre-emptive action required to avoid any risk is testing.
  • decision, to release prior to 100% of testing
  • risks involved with every software release.
  • key to success in the drive for cost effective, timely and appropriately tested software releases.
  • “when has enough testing been done?”
  • “when has enough risk been mitigated?”.
  • two types of risk we need to identify and profile
  • traditional or natural risks, and product risks.

  • traditional risk logs:

     
     
    • The test environment will be commandeered for a production fix
     
    • Development will over run impacting test start date
     
    • Higher than estimated defect density will occur impacting test end date
     
    • Key test resources will become unavailable
  • product risks
  • • The new single sign on portal will allow access to users incorrectly
     
    • The link to the 3rd party payments collection site fails
     
    • When switching to “Super Intergalactic Turbo Mode” the game fails to render on iPad
     
    • The shade of blue displayed in the game sky is not consistent across browsers
     
    • The wrong regional headers and footers are applied to letters and statements
  • This approach should not be seen as “do less testing” but, if rigorously applied, will allow risk-based decisions on when sufficient testing has been done, to be taken based on quantified, repeatable science.

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