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Technical Debt, Part I
I wanted to re-post a link I received the other day from one of our developers. My heart was warmed that it came from a developer (and about quality issues – WOW). It is perhaps one of the finest software-related … Continue reading
Posted in Bugs, QA Fundamentals, Quality
Tagged blog, bugs, career ladder, Construx, consult, consulting, developer, HR, Jenny Stuart, post, previous project, quality, quality issues, read, Rockwell Automation, technical debt, trade-offs, VP
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Reopened Bugs, Part Deux – Reopened more than once (Oh My!)
About a week ago, I explored the fanciful world of reopened bugs (http://wp.me/p1gsHK-z). I made a promise to revisit the topic of bugs reopened multiple times. Let’s dive into that now, and wrap up reopens for a while. First a … Continue reading
Posted in Bugs, QA Fundamentals, Reopened Bugs
Tagged advanced, bad, bugs, business analyst, long blog post, metric, poor, problem, product, QA, R2, R2-D2, R5, R5-D4, reopen, Star Wars
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Do you call them Bugs or Defects? …or something else?
I was busy checking out “other” QA blogs, and I was intrigued by one particular author who was adamant that bugs were different than defects, which were also different from deficiencies. Bugs were what you found in development. Defects were … Continue reading
Posted in Bugs, QA Fundamentals
Tagged agile, bugs, defects, deficiencies, done done, enhancement, process, scrum, silly names for things, technical debt, triage
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Reopened Bugs: What’s Good and Bad About Doing Things Twice…
On most bug reports, buried down deep near the bottom of the form… it’s there. Maybe no one but the Test Manager knows… but it’s there. The dreaded reopen count (or date) – there to mock those working on the … Continue reading
Posted in Bugs, QA Fundamentals, Reopened Bugs
Tagged bugs, canary in a coal mine, metrics, process, reopen
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Bugs – Why severity does not equal priority
Bugs and bug reports are always hot topics when discussing quality. Lots of teams talk about bugs because they’re tangible (and usually very relevant). It’s amazing to me how many organizations can quote exactly how many bugs are open, but … Continue reading
Bug Metrics – Part 1 of Many
One of my favorite topics is metrics, and I’m sure there will be a number of posts on metrics of all sorts over time. Metrics are especially interesting in the area of bug reports. Everyone has their favorite bug metrics, … Continue reading
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