Michael Hackett reviews highlights of the conference held in Helsinki, Finland.
Michael Hackett, co-founder and Senior Vice President of LogiGear, will share his research in a technical session called “An Industry-based Examination of Distributing and Outsourcing Testing in Agile Projects” at the 6th annual IEEE International Conference on Global Software Engineering (ICGSE). The session will present solutions to distributing testing in agile projects Wednesday, August 17th at 1:30pm. “Agile Software testing ” method is attracting much attention of world outsourcing. PC World Vietnam B magazine (PCW) interviews Mr. Michael Hackett, Senior Vice President of LogiGear Corporation, about the method. The challenge in understanding the current state of testing is to bypass conventional wisdom or educated guesses, and rely instead on actual data. http://www.logigear.com/michael/survey.asp Complete the survey and have your voice heard! There was an IEEE conference in July, hosted at the University of Limerick. I gave a tutorial on the current state of testing: Testing Teams in Globalized Software Development. There was an inquisitive group and we had a fun session. Globally, testing is not often valued as highly as it is in Silicon Valley. People were interested to see a different perspective on testing. The conference was focused on offshoring development and not on testing. My focus was special topics in testing: various responsibilities in testing and quality, agile projects, offshoring test automation, offshore team skill building. The most interesting thing about this conference for me was the presentation of research on various topics in offshore development… Test Leads and Test Managers very rarely make the decision to offshore. It is typically not a choice, but rather a mandate from company executives who look to offshoring for significant cost reduction. Among US leads and managers responsible for offshore teams, management and oversight of the offshore teams is now cited as their largest source of job stress. Once the dictate is made to move your test effort offshore, what can you do to have it go as smoothly as possible? How can you minimize the headaches, late night phone calls, late or incorrectly executed tasks, and other hassles? What can you do to make offshoring work in the best way possible and reduce stress? There are a number of things that you can do to maximize the productivity of your offshore testing team, get the most of the testing resources that are available in-house, and minimize your stress. In this post I’ll look at what can you control: * Tools, infrastructure, and processes to foster good communication |
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