As part of my on-going series on Agile for Testers – see this month’s article on People and Practices, I wanted to include the data I collected Agile development and testing and give you a chance to view them.
Data was compiled and analyzed by Michael Hackett, LogiGear Senior Vice President. This is the first analysis of the 2010 Global Testing Survey. More survey results will be included in subsequent magazine issues.
Process The objective of this survey and analysis is to gather information on the actual state-of-the-practice in software testing today. The questions originate from software development team assessments I executed over the years. A process assessment is an observation and questioning of how and what you and your team does.
METHODS M1. The test cases for your effort are based primarily on: Response percent Response count Requirements documents 61.3% 46 Discussions with users on expected use 2.7% 2 Discussions with product, business analysts, and marketing representatives 9.3% 7 Technical documents 4% 3 Discussions with developers 8% 6 My experience and subject or technical expertise 12% …
TOOLS T1. What testing-support tools do you use? (Please check all that apply.) Response percent Response count Bug tracking/issue tracking/defect tracking 87.70% 64 Source control 54.80% 40 Automation tool interface (to manage and run, not write automated tests) 52.10% 38 Test case manager 50.70% 37 Change request/change management/change control system 47.90% 35 A full ALM …
METRICS AND MEASUREMENTS MM1. Do you have a metric or measurement dashboard built to report to your project team? Response percent Response count Yes 69% 49 No 31% 22 Result analysis: Anything worth doing is worth measuring. Why would almost 1/3 of teams not measure? Is the work not important or respected? Does the team …
Data was compiled and analyzed by Michael Hackett, LogiGear Senior Vice President. This is the sixth analysis of the 2010 Global Testing Survey Series. More survey results will be included in subsequent magazine issues. To read past surveys, visit https://www.logigear.com/magazine/category/issue/survey/. Part 1- The Home Team HT1. Do you outsource testing (outside your company)? Response percent …
Few people like to admit team dynamics and project politics will interfere with successful completion of a software development project. But the more projects you work on, the more you realize it’s very rare that technology problems get in the way. It’s always the people, project, planning, respect, communications issues that hurt development teams the …
Michael Hackett discusses the results of the seventh installment of the Global Surveys focusing on common training in software testing.
