| Show Me the Money Introducing technical and, especially, financial risk assessments into test planning can provide more effective testing at lower cost, leading to improved business-IT reliability. Show Me the Professionalism Testing is a formal software engineering discipline, and financial criteria have no place in determining the most appropriate testing strategy for software. | “When risk assessments are combined with financial value equations and used to derive software testing plans and budgets, the testing professionals rebel.” Don Estes, Guest Editor Opening Statement Testing As a Component of an Organizational IT Risk Management Strategy Consider the Consequences: Risk-Based Testing Strategies Making the Hard-to-Accept Aspects of QA Acceptable Testing in XP Standards Versus Agility: Working Toward Success in Software Testing Validating Agile Models | |
| Next Issue XP and Culture Change Guest Editor: Kent Beck Extreme Programming (XP) calls for the rapid and frequent production of small increments of customer-visible functionality. The difficulties of applying XP, however, live in the social shift it implies. Can good programmers, project managers, and customers learn to acknowledge their fears and accept their rights and responsibilities in the XP environment? In next month's Cutter IT Journal, XP guru Kent Beck examines real-world examples where XP helped (with or without struggle) and where XP didn't help or failed miserably. Don't miss these true confessions from the world of XP! | ||
In today's altered IT universe, the issues of agile software development and risk management are rising in concert, changing the way we manage our enterprises. Like businesspeople everywhere, IT professionals are seeing these issues in a new light. Even software testers, who have historically approached their work in a materially different way than their programming counterparts, are considering different techniques in response to agile methods and risk factors. Can the time and financial costs of software testing be mitigated in an agile methodology framework? Will testing in the context of an enterprise-wide risk management approach contribute to improved testing methods and results?
