| Introduction Testing E-Business Applications Without Breaking the Bank Business Validation of E-Business Applications at Hewlett-Packard E-Business Test Modeling with UML How Do You Know When You Are Done Testing? Presentation Matters: Make Your Testing Efforts Count Through Effective Communication Next Issue The Future of SPI Brace yourselves -- software process improvement (SPI) is back. "Oh, come on now," you might say. "I worked through SPI 10 years ago. Are people still talking about it?" Yes, we are. Because even if you intend to avoid the Capability Maturity Model like the plague, there are still good ideas on what people can do to develop software better. So how do we make SPI a critical technique for the pragmatist instead of a theoretical exercise? In the October issue of the Cutter IT Journal, we'll discuss the critical elements that were missing in failed SPI projects and what must be present for SPI to work. We'll ask how SPI relates to the business and the people. We'll talk about what happens after the SPI change agent leaves and how we keep people from reverting back to poor processes once all the hoopla is over. SPI isn't just for bookshelves and bureaucrats. Check us out next month to see why you can't keep a good idea down. |
Although high-tech stock prices continue to trend down, the pressures to develop Internet-enabled applications for the general public continue to rise. A key dilemma, though, is how to test these e-business applications to ensure reliable functionality, adequate performance, and solid security. The methods of developing applications for e-business have undergone a sea change in the past five years, but the role of testing has arguably not kept pace with this change. Witness the frequent news reports of denial of service attacks, credit-card database theft, and Web sites that cave in under unexpectedly high traffic. How do we need to think differently in this Internet age about testing security, performance, and reliability of e-business applications? Tune in to read more about this critical issue.
