Archive for the ‘Quality assurance’ Category

The increased role of Agile

Wednesday, January 4th, 2012

Agile is business need for Ukrainian outsourcers

Agile has become more than just one of the software development methodologies. Now it is the most common way of self-organization, that definitely dominates in IT-related professions. We decided to share some of our knowledge about Agile and offer our vision on implementing Agile into practice. (more…)

MS SWIT 2010: First Day

Friday, December 3rd, 2010

On December 2 in Kiev was started the Microsoft SWIT 2010 Conference. MS SWIT is the largest event for Ukrainian IT professionals where they can communicate and share the experience with the colleagues.

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The two-day event is dedicated to the innovative MS products and technologies, such as Windows Azure, Windows Phone 7, SharePoint 2010, System Center, Visual Studio, etc. About 30 lecturers from Microsoft and its partner companies take floor in three specialized sections.

Softheme takes part in MS SWIT 2010. Our company is very interested in new information technologies, software development trends and cloud computing. We have participated in a discussion of various topics such as

Application Development for Windows Phone 7
Sergei Lutay

Mobile devices have become an integral part of human life. Important role in establishing this fact played a most possible devices, and capacity to create different kinds of applications, allowing each of us to more effectively utilize their resources. In this report Sergei told us about what advantages the platform Windows Phone 7 makes for developers to create business applications and how to develop high-performance applications for the platform.

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Software Outsourcing: Events Calendar

Thursday, September 9th, 2010

There are a lot events in IT world. This presentation is about most interesting and huge events, exhibition in software outsourcing.

See also: CEEOA was to hold the webinar ‘Presentation of ‘CEE IT Outsourcing Review 2010’
2011 Outsourcing Industry Predictions

The Future of Testing: Testers as Designers

Thursday, September 9th, 2010

the-future-of-testing-testers-as-designersModern testers play largely a role of late cycle heroics that often goes unappreciated come review and bonus time. When we find the big bug it is because we were supposed to … that’s the expectation. When we miss the big bug, people ask questions. It’s often a case of ignored-if-you-do and damned-if-you-don’t.

This is going to change and it is going to change soon because it must.

As testing and test techniques move earlier in the process testers will do work more similar to software design than software verification. We will place more emphasis on designing quality strategy for all software artifacts and not just the binary. We will spend more time recognizing the need for testing rather than actually executing test cases. We will oversee and measure automation rather than building and debugging it. We will spend more time reviewing the status of pre-existing tests than building new ones. We will become designers and our work will be performed at a higher level of abstraction and earlier in the lifecycle.
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The Future of Testing: Moving Testing Forward

Wednesday, September 8th, 2010

the-future-of-testing-informationInformation

What information do you use to help you test your software? Specs? User manuals? Prior (or competing) versions? Source code? Protocol analyzers? Process monitors? Does the information help? Is it straightforward to use?

Information is at the core of everything we do as software testers. The better our information about what the software is supposed to be doing and how it is doing it, the better our testing can actually be. I find it unacceptable that testers get so little information and none of it is specifically designed to make it easier to do our jobs. I am happy to say that this is changing … rapidly … and that in the near term we will certainly be gifted with the right information at the right time.
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SWIT Investor Day