By bfwebster on Sep 24, 2008 in Articles, Baseline, Development, IT Project Management, Main, Management, Quality assurance, Software engineering, Surviving Complexity | 0 Comments
The first column, “Second Class Software Quality for Major IT Projects”, talks about the curious fact that organizations are willing to spend millions, tens of millions, even hundred of millions of dollars on major IT project and yet still nickle-and-dime their software quality assurance (SQA) effort. It doesn’t help that SQA personnel are pretty much [...]
By bfwebster on Sep 11, 2008 in Main, Quality assurance | 0 Comments
As mentioned previously, I spoke last week at the Denver IEEE Reliabilty Society chapter meeting on an SQA-centric view of software development. I plan to develop this into a full-blown articles (or posting), but in the meantime, here is the slide presentation (PPT, 340KB) I used. Feel free to ask questions. ..bruce..
By bfwebster on Aug 26, 2008 in IT Project Management, Main, Management, Methodology, Quality assurance | 1 Comment
On September 2nd, I’ll be speaking at a meeting of the Denver IEEE Reliability Society. It will be held at 5:30 pm in the Seagate Building in Longmont (CO), on Nelson Road between 75th Rd and Airport Rd.
Here’s my abstract of the talk:
INSIDE-OUT: Organizations too often treat software reliability as an ‘after the fact’ consideration, [...]
By bfwebster on Jun 9, 2008 in Books, Main, Management, Methodology, PMSE, Pitfalls, Quality assurance | 1 Comment
[From Pitfalls of Modern Software Engineering by Bruce F. Webster (forthcoming)]
Categories: managerial
This is a classic pitfall in software engineering. Typically, insufficient time is allocated for the problem specification, research, design, architecture, and review that should occur before coding and during each development cycle. Likewise, software quality assurance (SQA) is often given little [...]
By bfwebster on Apr 8, 2008 in Change management, IT project disputes, Main, Patterns, Pitfalls, Quality assurance, Software engineering | 0 Comments
The opening of Terminal 5 at London Heathrow Airport has not been without problems, to say the least. And one of the specific problems appears to be the automated baggage handling system:
…the computer-operated baggage system has crashed and luggage is now being sorted manually before being loaded on to planes.
Twelve return flights to short-haul destinations [...]
By bfwebster on Mar 4, 2008 in Intellectual property, Main, Methodology, Quality assurance, Source code control | 1 Comment
Judges in Minnesota have ruled — in over 100 cases — that drivers charged with DWI, as part of their defense, have a right to examine the source code of the breath-test machines used. Those rulings were upheld by the Minnesota Supreme Court last July. The breath-test device manufacturer, CMI, Inc., has to date refused [...]
By bfwebster on Mar 3, 2008 in IT Project Management, Main, Quality assurance, Software engineering | 0 Comments
Here’s an interesting story over at Physorg.com about the IT project supporting the 2008 Olympics in Beijing:
Atos Origin is the information technology partner for the International Olympic Committee (IOC) with the job of designing, building and operating the invisible IT infrastructure that supplies results, events and athlete information to the media, spectators and the world.
It [...]
By bfwebster on Jan 23, 2008 in IT Project Management, Main, Quality assurance, Software engineering | 0 Comments
I’ve written a post over at my other website on why software engineers should spend time working in software quality assurance on a regular basis. ..bruce w..