How many testers do we need? How many test cases do we need? How many bugs will testing find? How long will testing take? Those are good questions, but those questions are often hard to answer. In this webinar, drawn from three decades of industry experience and materials in his best-selling book Managing the Testing Process, 3rd edition, Rex will discuss fundamental techniques for test estimation. Join in the discussion after the initial presentation, and ask Rex about the challenges you face with test estimation.

To support our international clientele, we will present this webinar at two times:
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Each live webinar session consists of one hour of presentation and a 30 minute post-webinar question-and-answer opportunity.

These webinars are free.  Webinar attendance registers you to win a free e-learning course from RBCS.  Congratulations to Wanda Butler, the winner in August!

A useful and very informative video for those who want to know How is the requirements process different in an agile environment as opposed to waterfall or any other methodology?



Video by Robin Goldsmith

Agile methods are a family of development processes, not a single approach to software development. Agile follows ‘adaptive’ planning rather than ‘predictive’ planning in conventional Waterfall Process.

• Customer satisfaction by rapid, continuous delivery of useful software.
• Working software is delivered frequently (weeks rather than months)
• Working software is the principal measure of progress.
• Even late changes in requirements are welcomed.
• Close, daily, cooperation between business people and developers
• Face-to-face conversation is the best form of communication.
• Projects are built around motivated individuals, who should be trusted
• Continuous attention to technical excellence and good design.
• Simplicity
• Self-organizing teams
• Regular adaptation to changing circumstances

Before going to the People Challenges, I would like to reiterate Few Useful Points on Role of Software Testers:
– Testing is finally recognized as a profession which needs specialized skills set and qualifications. – Also it is convinced testing will not start once the development is completed.
– Testing needs to be start in every stage of the software development Life Cycle.
– Testers need to validate whether the requirements specification documents is developed based on the needs of the organization.

– Testers need to be ensuring that the design documents developed based on the requirements specifications.
– Testers need to be ensure that the test cases and test plan are created based on the requirements specifications.
– Testers need to be ensuring that the defects need to find out before the test cycle starts so that the cost spends will gradually decreases.
– Testers need to be ensuring that the defects can be reproducible by developers.
– Testers need to be ensuring that they are finding defects of the high priority scenarios first.
– If you are in Agile methodology, then testers need to make sure that defects are getting fixed on priority.
– Finding out defects in the later stage of the product will leads the cost spend to rectify the defects is very costly.

The top 10 people challenges have been identified:

• Training in Testing
• Good Relationship with Developers.
• Good Relationship with Customers.
• Managers need to understand about testing. [Think – Do your Company has Culture of Testing?]
• Using of Tools.
• Time on Testing
• Fighting a lose-lose situation
1. Having to say No
• Testing “Over the wall” Software
1. Having to say “no”

[Update: April Fools! Gmail Motion doesn’t actually exist. its merely an April Fools prank from Google]

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