Topic: software quality
Report: Test automation coverage has rebounded after a dip last year
Test automation coverage has rebounded after a dip last year, according to SmartBear’s State of Quality Testing 2022 report. SmartBear conducted a global online survey over the course of five weeks earlier this year. The findings are based upon aggregated responses from more than 1,500 software developers, testers, IT/operations professionals, and business leaders across many … continue reading
Defining software quality metrics for Agile and DevOps
In a a Tricentis-commissioned report from Forrester released in July, “The Definitive Software Quality Metrics For Agile+DevOps,” surveyors found that it’s a common trait of companies that have seen the most success from Agile and DevOps adoption that they have made another operational transition. These companies have moved on from considering “counting” metrics — for … continue reading
Overcoming the challenges of adopting Behavior-Driven Development in the enterprise
Behavior-driven development (BDD) is a software development process that attempts to solve the problem of implementing poorly defined requirements. It seeks to leverage the domain expertise of business and QA professionals to ensure that developers build the correct software. Let’s begin by describing the evolutionary process that has prompted many organizations to explore BDD. At … continue reading
Guest View: Getting to market faster doesn’t mean sacrificing quality
Everyone’s getting squeezed. As customers demand more intelligent, connected products, companies feel intensified heat to deliver quickly or risk disruption. The pressure created by the convergence of these two forces is often felt most by development teams. Typically, not only are they asked to do more with the same amount of resources, but they’re also … continue reading
CRASH Report: Small teams, Java EE behind software with highest structural quality
Smaller development teams produce software that has the highest structural quality, while teams of 20 or more create software of poor structural quality. That is according to the 2017 CRASH Report on the global health of software released late last month. The report bases structural quality on five characteristics: robustness, security, performance efficiency, changeability and … continue reading
CISQ looks to create a true measure of software technical debt
The Consortium for IT Software Quality (CISQ) has created standard measures for quality characteristics in software – reliability, security, performance efficiency and maintainability. Now, the group is working to create a measure of technical debt an organization carries across the aforementioned quality characteristics that takes in the amount of work required to clear that debt. … continue reading
OMG to approve CISQ software measurements as standards
The Object Management Group will approve as standards new measures to evaluate the quality characteristics of software created by the Consortium for IT Software Quality. The CISQ Quality Characteristic Measures cover the areas of reliability, security, performance efficiency and maintainability, as well as for automating function point measurements, according to Bill Curtis, executive director of … continue reading
CISQ aims to ensure industry-wide software quality standards
The Consortium for IT Software Quality (CISQ) has released two specifications to help organizations increase software quality. Managed by the Object Management Group (OMG), CISQ was chartered in 2009 to create specifications for measuring source code quality that can be approved by the OMG. “[The] industry needs standard, low-cost, automated measures for evaluating software size … continue reading
Oh no! Bugs are still on the loose!
But these bugs can be vanquished by following these five steps, as compiled by software developers … continue reading
