How to Reduce the Cost of Software Testing

Edited by: Matthew Heusser is a software process naturalist and consulting software tester. In the twelve years he has been working in technology, he has worked as a developer, project manager, and test and quality assurance lead. During that time he also managed to serve as lead organizer of the Grand Rapids’ Perl User Group. Heusser also served as lead organizer for the Great Lakes Software Excellence Conference and has presented at STAREast, the Better Software Conference, Google’s Test Automation Conference, and the Software Test Professionals Conference. In addition to speaking, Heusser is the author of the influential blog Creative Chaos (http://xndev.blogspot.com) and a contributing editor to Software Test and Quality Assurance magazine. He recently completed a contract as an evening instructor in information systems at Calvin College and served as the lead organizer of the workshop on technical debt. His first contributed work was a chapter in the book Beautiful Testing, published in 2009 by O’Reilly Media. Govind Kulkarni has spent seventeen years in software quality assurance and management. He is a Project Management Professional (PMP), Certified Quality Auditor (CQA), and TicK IT professional. He has worked with Fortune 500 clients, and has provided test strategy and test management solutions. He is one of the reviewers of the test maturity model integrated (TMMi), is actively doing research in model-based testing, and is devising his own test estimation method called as TPIT. These days he works as a mentor and has trained some two thousand testers all over the world. He manages his own testing Web site http://www.enjoytesting.com and is actively involved in LinkedIn and other forums. He has written more than twenty-five technical papers and is a frequent speaker at testing conferences. He can be reached at govind@enjoytesting.com.

What Will This Cost Us? Is This the Right Question? The Cost of Quality. Testing Economics: Managed testing vs. Efficiently Managed Testing. Opportunity Cost of Testing. Trading Money for Time: When Saving Money Doesn't (and When It Does). An Analysis of Costs in Software Testing. What Should We Do? Test Readiness: Be Ready to Test When the Software Is Ready to Be Tested. Session-Based Test Management. Postpone Costs to Next Release. Cost Reduction through Reusable Test Assets. You Can't Waste Money on a Defect That Isn't There. How Should We Do It? A Nimble Test Plan: Removing the Cost of Overplanning. Exploiting the Testing Bottleneck. Design of Experiments-Based Test Case Design. Clean Test: Suggestions for Reducing Costs by Increasing Test Craftsmanship. Rightsizing the Cost of Testing: Tips for Executives. Appendices: Immediate Strategies to Reduce Test Cost. 25 Tips to Reduce Testing Cost Today. Rapid Test Augmentation. Cost of Starting Up a Test Team.