February 10, 2006
Supporting Mission Critical Applications
During the development of a mission critical application, there is a tremendous amount of effort spent on building quality into the application. This effort is justified because once the application is deployed, the amount of downtime or system errors is expected to be minimal. The reality is there will be unexpected application responses or application functions that simply stop working, due to either slightly different data sets or a...
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October 21, 2005
Software Quality Assurance
The concept of quality has received a lot of coverage in the insight columns on this site, and I do not want to re-examine the timeless question of the origin of quality. Instead, I would like to concentrate on quality assurance. In the manufacturing industry, quality assurance is what drives the release of products and production benchmarks. The ability to produce X products with only Y defects is how production cycles are measured to...
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March 05, 2005
The Danger of Scope Creep
The ability of a project to remain on time and within budget is linked to how well change in scope is managed and communicated between the design and validation teams.
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